Rare woolly rhino mummies emerge from the permafrost
The new finds confirm the existence of a feature seen in cave art.
The new finds confirm the existence of a feature seen in cave art.
50 years of excavation unveiled the story of a catastrophic event and its aftermath.
The mammoths of Wrangel Island purged a lot of harmful mutations before dying off.
300 million-year-old tail print shows that scales evolved earlier than expected.
Bureau of Land Management's blasting will make the site safe, but may wreck fossils.
Isotopes trapped in a tusk can be matched to those in the Alaskan landscape.
One "big wet lizard" was chewed on by another.
A lethal final meal preserved the only intact ammonite found in a fossil bed.
A non-flying precursor to pterosaurs shared the Earth with the first dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs' hyper-efficient breathing system also evolved in two other lineages.
New fossil from China captures the last moments of a life-or-death struggle.
Fossils and modern experiments are telling us what a shark's nose knows.
The technique could allow us to link mammoth health and nutrition to mating.
Shaggy fur, cold tolerance, and cancer resistance may all be in the genes.
What allowed an ecosystem to support toothy predators all over the food chain?
A fossil site may contain guano washed into the oceans from a pterosaur colony.
Washed out to sea, a giant beast and its armored skin were left in pristine condition.
A skin of porous scales may have helped keep dinosaurs' metabolism from overheating.
The evolution of this weapon may have had little to do with threats from predators.
The largest sharks ever seem to have left their young in an unsupervised daycare.
How do we go from a fossil to an understanding of flight capabilities?
The remains of the digestive process can tell us a lot about past ecosystems.
The structure of bones around the eye indicate a small pupil that let in less light.
Find suggests the titanosaurs didn't need to migrate to favorable nesting sites.
A road project in Tennessee revealed an enigmatic fossil of an enormous mastodon.
“One animal could have made thousands of traces during its lifetime, but only left one skeleton."