Dubbed Praearcturus, this colossal arthropod scuttled across what is now England and Wales during the Devonian period circa ...

A meter-long scorpion ruled ancient Britain 415 million years ago, and its true identity was hiding in plain sight.

These UK fossils have puzzled palaeontologists for more than a century. Now they’ve been re-examined and identified as an ...

A team of researchers worked grueling, hot hours in the desert to understand the history of life in Earth’s oceans after a ...

Westmoreland State Park sits on the Potomac River’s southern shore, and it’s hiding one of the most remarkable secrets in ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Sometime between 5.5 and 5.6 million years ago, two shell crushers squared off in the languid currents of an ancient Florida ...

Scientists have uncovered a fish-hunting raptor from Patagonia that may have stalked prey like a giant prehistoric heron.

Reports of proteins in fossilized bones have stirred controversy in the scientific community for decades. Now, a team of British researchers working in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation found evidence of ...

For decades, raptors have been seen as fast, fierce predators racing after prey. Movies helped make that image famous, but fossils continue to show that dinosaurs were often more diverse than we once ...

A newly identified prehistoric crocodile relative, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa, was discovered alongside another croc species in ...

Plan an Ohio treasure-hunting trip with fossils, beach glass, scenic stops, and small discoveries that keep the route ...