The four-inch-wide fragment had been quietly stored for decades in England when it caught the eye of a paleontologist.

Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes ...

Dr Mike Thomson’s 1985 geological field notebook next to the dinosaur fossil vertebra found in Antarctica. Credit: British ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

A fossil from an extremely rare dinosaur has resurfaced after spending years hidden away in an unusual place. According to ...

A partial skeleton of a baby dinosaur pulled from South Korea’s Aphae Islands has been identified as a new species, marking ...

A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains ever ...

As the film Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters this week bringing dinosaurs back into full view, the company Dinosaur Trips brings travelers to view fossils of real dinosaurs around the world. High ...

Paleontologist and Geologist Dr. Ken Lacovara joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about fossils. Can we extract dinosaur DNA from fossils? How is crude oil made from fossils? Where ...

The 150-million-year-old Solnhofen Limestone in southern Germany contains prehistoric lagoon deposits known for yielding wonderfully preserved fossils, including those of pterosaurs: flying reptiles ...

Today, fossils feel almost self-explanatory. You see a tooth, a shell, or a skeleton in a museum case and instinctively treat it as evidence of ancient life, preserved over immense spans of time. That ...