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While enjoying an evening walk at Douglas Lake in East Tennessee, 11-year-old Ryleigh Taylor stumbled upon a magnificent discovery: the 475-million-year-old fossilized remains of an ancient sea creature called a trilobite...

Dozens of footprints from ancient sauropods, a kind of creature that scientists believe may have been the largest dinosaur ever, have been discovered in Scotland...

Is Earth staring down a mass extinction? Recent research from an international team of scientists reveals warning signs for the biggest mass extinction in our planet's history were apparent far earlier than experts had thought...

Big Bend National Park isn’t just a place of stunning landscape beauty—the Texan park is also paleontological paradise. To tell the story of the area’s rich fossil history, Texan architecture studio Lake | Flato designed...

What may perhaps be the world's greatest cache of Triassic-era fossils was discovered by scientists at Utah's Bears Ears National Monument, which recently lost its protected status...

Fossils in Africa from the Late Cretaceous time period - around 100 to 66 million years ago - are rare. Scientists have been largely kept in the dark about the course of dinosaur evolution on the continent, but a new dinosaur...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossil of a modern human outside of Africa in Misliya Cave near Mount Carmel, Israel. The discovery reveals that modern humans left Africa at least 50,000 years earlier than previously...

Scientists recently uncovered the largest group of fossilized pterosaur eggs ever. In a 10-foot-long sandstone block in northwest China, they came across 215 eggs - 16 of which have embryonic remains. Discoveries of pterosaur...

It may be hard to believe, but forests once sprawled across Antarctica. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) geologists recently climbed the slopes of McIntyre Promontory in the Transantarctic Mountains to uncover fossil...

Pterosaurs roamed the skies long ago as the first animals to evolve powered flight after insects - and in the Gobi Desert, scientists recently found the remains of one that could have been nearly as big as a small aircraft...

Paleontologists have discovered fossil remains of what may have been the largest predator to ever hunt on the African savanna. Found in Lesotho, the recently revealed fossilized footprints of a previously unknown "mega-carnivore"...

Scientists recently gathered more clues into the history of Earth's seventh continent, Zealandia. The mostly submerged continent was hiding in plain sight until a new study backed up its existence this year. Now, after drilling...

Scientists recently gathered more clues into the history of Earth's seventh continent, Zealandia. The continent that was hiding in plain sight until a new study backed up its existence this year is mostly submerged. But after...

Sometimes, there are benefits to being clumsy - so discovered 9-year-old Jude Sparks on a recent hike in New Mexico's Orange Mountains. On a trip with his family, Sparks tripped over an object which he first thought was “just...

A group of miners in Canada accidentally stumbled upon what is possibly the most intact dinosaur carcass science has ever seen. They discovered the fully-preserved nodosaur, a herbivore that stretched 18-feet-long and weighed...