Wind turbine blades will become fossils due to their durable materials. Scientists call these "technofossils." ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — ...

A newly studied Vegavis iaai skull from Antarctica confirms that modern bird lineages, like ducks and geese, were evolving ...

A fossil of the creature was originally unearthed from the Mazon Creek deposit in northeastern Illinois by Bob Masek, a ...

Across the street from the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, scientists and volunteers are hard at work. An electrical ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously unknown human relative species dubbed the “nutcracker man”.

A remarkable fossil discovery from Antarctica is rewriting ... As Clarke notes, “In the past they were weird and wonderful. We have this huge range [of now-extinct anseriform birds] and Vegavis ...

And these fossils came from the foothills ... and pretty much just making evolution weird. At the beginning of the Eocene epoch, 56 million years ago, the area that’s now Wyoming ...

But, according to well-preserved throat fossils discovered in 2005, many non-avian dinosaurs might have relied on chirps instead of ferocious roars to get their voice out there. The fossils ...