How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

Paleontologist Joe Wood showcased various fossils at COSI's Mythic Creatures exhibit, which includes a cast of Megalosaurus ...

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

Scientists have spent twenty years and analyzed more than 7,500 marine fossils to answer a question that has quietly troubled ...

Ancient tiny fossils from Australia may carry evidence of great power: the ability to make oxygen through photosynthesis. The fossilized bacteria, dating from 1.73 billion to 1.78 billion years ago, ...

Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the ...

Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth. The 24 million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the ...

As dinosaur fossils sell to private collectors for increasingly awesome sums, scientists are worried that domestic museums are being priced out of the market. To find out how fossils became big ...

Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The human story became a bit more complicated about two ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. Subscribe to our ...