An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

Fossilized fish found in Australia are so well preserved that paleontologists can see what the creatures ate for their last ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The newly identified dinosaur may have been about the size of a pony, and was at least eight years old when it died, according to the researchers. The fossil was first recorded by paleontologists ...

The fossils recovered in the area are from about 200 million years ago, in the early Jurassic period, when the land used to be covered by a body of water known as Lake Whitmore. The fossils are ...

Jeholia longchengi fossil found in China's Yixian Formation First Mesozoic-era terrestrial scorpion fossil in China Scorpion played a key role in the Early Cretaceous food chain ...

paleontologists uncovered fossils and teeth of the ancient creature. This breakthrough pulls back the curtain on a little known part of North American history. Finally we can know what the everyday ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...

Scientists have found a Jurassic-age fossil in China that changes our understanding ... Unlike Archaeopteryx, the other Jurassic-era bird known to science, Baminornis had a short, fused pygostyle ...