New research highlights that Troodon, a small predatory dinosaur, had one of the highest brain-to-body size ratios among ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous ...

Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the discovery also shedding light on a remarkable survival story. The fossil, ...

A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth’s oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas. A sketch of the giant octopus of the genus Nanaimoteuthis from ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a 550-million-year-old sponge that likely lacked hard skeletal parts, explaining why ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The discovery answers a long-standing question about the reproductive biology of ...

In 2010, when Foxes and Fossils played their first gig, there were about 50 people in the audience. Most of crowd was there for pizza. A cohort of family members, church colleagues and friends helped ...

When the paleontologists first plucked a massive, scimitar-shaped bone from the desolate sands of the central Sahara in 2019, they didn't immediately recognize it for what it was. It took a return ...

A remarkable fossil from China shows a prehistoric predator right after a massive meal. Inside a 5-meter-long Guizhouichthyosaurus, scientists found the remains of a 4-meter marine reptile, a rare and ...

A team of researchers has confirmed a remarkable discovery on Mount Everest: marine fossils about 450 million years old found at more than 13,000 feet above sea level. The finding shows that the ...