An unexpected discovery in Antarctica is challenging long-standing scientific assumptions. A massive egg fossil, recently ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub asteroid struck 66 million years ago could be due to fossil collection practices.

Around 70 million years ago, Earth’s largest predators were dominating continents, driven by an extraordinary evolutionary ...

A group of Earth scientists believes they probably were not. While it’s true that fossils from the final dinosaur era are comparatively rare compared to those that came before, it seems the ...

The museum's paleontology exhibit showcases fossils from the Ice ... is right at the very end of the age of dinosaurs,” Martz said. “At that time, Antarctica was underwater, so we have a ...

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