Everyone poops—even dinosaurs. If you’re curious about the bowel movements of now-extinct creatures like Tyrannosaurus rex ...

The fossilized remains of a nearly 75-million-year-old “swamp dweller” have been discovered by paleontologists in northwest Colorado. The University of Colorado team behind the discovery has ...

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That’s because many of the fossils of these creatures are headless shells that were left behind when they molted, squirming out of their exoskeletons through the head opening as they grew ever ...

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how ...

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Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.

As the shock wave’s pressure decreases, we hear thunder. Fulgurites, also known as fossilized lightning, don’t have a fixed composition: they are composed of whatever they’re composed of at ...

Muller found the fossil in 2015, near the town of Paraiso do Sul, in the southern part of Brazil. But it was only recently that he and his colleagues began to study it.

The museum is home to the world’s largest collection of coprolites, or bits of fossilized dung. The museum’s owner, George Frandsen, has been fascinated by coprolites since he was a teenager.