Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ...

These are dinosaur trees — living fossils that have survived for over 200 million years. Once believed extinct, fewer than 150 were found clinging to life in a hidden Australian gorge, making them one ...

An illustration of a member of the Prototaxites genus, which lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago Matt Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios In 1843, Canadian geologist William Edmond Logan ...

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One of the weirdest animals that ever lived may have been a scavenger. A re-examination of fossils first described in the 1970s seems to show a swarm of Hallucigenia feeding on the corpse of a comb ...

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Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

This is one of my favorite places to hunt fossils whenever I’m in Michigan, and it never disappoints. This beach is packed with incredible middle Devonian fossils from the Traverse Group, dating back ...

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. The past year began with ...

‘Tis the season for bones and fossils. Indeed, as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow felt that was the perfect theme for his offensive line this holiday season. The official Bengals TikTok made ...

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research. A fossil of ...