A fossil smaller than a human fingernail has revealed a complete ancient brain, turning a speck of stone into a detailed map of early animal evolution. Encased inside this tiny creature are preserved ...

A rare 280 million-year-old fossil resembling a lizard-like creature is mostly just a carved rock painted black, a new analysis reveals. The Permian fossil, discovered in the Italian Alps in 1931 and ...

Dinosaurs emerged around 230 million years ago during the Triassic. But how they came to dominate during the Jurassic isn’t clear. Now researchers have dug up new hints—from fossilized feces, gut ...

In a part of Romania better known for myth than science, a dense collection of fossils has emerged as one of the most ...