Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

Year after year, students have walked the halls of San Pedro High School in Los Angeles. What seemed to be an ordinary renovation turned out to be an extraordinary discovery when a trove of ancient ...

A partial remodel of San Pedro High School turned up something remarkable: one of the most stunning fossil beds archeologists have discovered, bosting once-underwater fossils from species dating back ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

Scientists have found the oldest fossil of a giant tadpole, which moved more than 160 million years ago. The recent fossil discovery in Argentina predates the former ancient record holder by roughly ...

A fossilized larva dating back over half a billion years has been discovered with its brain, digestive system, and nerve ...

A remarkable fossil discovered in northern China suggests that multiple human species once shared the region around 150,000 ...