Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

In the forests and farmland of eastern Poland, Grzegorz Wróbl set out on a mission to find fossils. Instead, he found an ...

With no trees, undergrowth, or official state designation, this underrated spot in Wyoming is famous for 50 million other ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

"It is amazing to imagine these giant flying squirrels gliding over rhinos and mastodons," said paleontologist Joshua Samuels.

By examining fossil plants and rocks from eastern ... But the recovery back to flourishing forests was not smooth sailing. The researchers discovered that even higher temperatures during the ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

This was confirmed by a spectacular recent discovery at the McGrath Flat fossil site near Gulgong in New South Wales, Australia. The site is classified as a "Lagerstätte" — a location that contains ...