Scientists knew something was funny about the Bron...  ...s knew something was funny about the Brontosaurus fossil reconstruction as far back as 1903, and have been...  ...outdo the other.Cutting corners led to a "hybrid" fossil that contained the body of an Apatosaurus and the...

Photo: Xiaoya Ma My, what large fossilized brain you've got! Nicholas Strausfeld of the Univ...  ...of Arizona and colleagues were studying fossils from China's Yunnan province when they...

Scientists have found the fossil of a squirrel-tailed dinosaur with feathers that...  ...sely related to coelurosaurs, the new fossil suggests feathered dinosaurs were the norm, not t...

The fossil remains of a 60-million-year-old turtle called Ca...

It looks like an insignificant s...  ...tavia antiqua, a microscopic, sponge-like African fossil that could be the earliest known animal...  ...s tiny as it may be important. "The fossils are small, about the size of a grain of sand,...

From the look of the fossilized skull, you'd think this was a Smilodon, a saberto...

A prehistoric creature found in the Canadian Rockies has been named Siphusauctum gregarium, which is both a new genus and species. It lived 500 million years ago, when the area now nickenamed the "Tulip Beds" was underwa...

Image: John Paterson Than...  ...sts examinning the 515-million-year-old fossil of this unusual animal discovered that it has upw...

Looking a bit like precious gold, this fossilized beetle is 47 million years old and retains almost...  .... According to paleontologist Maria McNamara, the fossils

Fossils of a 160-million-year-old mammal found in China s...  ...Pittsburgh, who led the team that discovered the fossil . Although this discovery helps us fill in the bl...