Delving into the fascinating world of paleontology, we uncover the stories of species that lived through Earth’s mass extinctions. These hardy survivors reveal much about the nature of life on Earth ...

A researcher crawling through Montana badlands in 2016 stumbled on a fossilized ball of dinosaur dung no bigger than a golf ...

Recent fossil discoveries in New Mexico have provided compelling evidence that dinosaurs were thriving just before the asteroid impact that led to their extinction 66 million years ago. These fossils, ...

Relatively few fossils belonging to the enigmatic early human have been unearthed in the past. Two new studies describe seven ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before ...

About 66 million years ago, a dinosaur—maybe a T. rex or a Nanotyrannus—ate a bird. The record of that meal, in the form of ...

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, Northwestern University scientists found evidence that ocean acidification ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

The study of extinction dynamics in the fossil record integrates patterns of biodiversity loss with environmental and biotic drivers across geological time. Fluctuations in global diversity often ...

A remarkably preserved feather from a dinosaur’s last meal offers new clues to why some birds survived the K-Pg catastrophe.