Paleontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal that extinct giant echidnas ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

One of the most fascinating fossils discovered in Argentina includes a chicken-sized dinosaur whose existence challenges our understanding of the preh.

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

The skull of a baby dinosaur found near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, is only the second of its kind ever found. Named “Lucy,” the ...

The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

The artist Klara Hodsnedlova inaugurates OMA’s soaring new atrium stairway at the New Museum. Credit...Sabrina Santiago for The New York Times Supported by By Patricia Leigh Brown If a prehistoric ...

Researchers working on fossils from Brazil found a new kind of tetrapod fossil from 275-million years ago called Tanyka amnicola. This creature is believed to be a living fossil for its time because ...

Those who venture into Foul Air Cave, below Buchan township in eastern Victoria, quickly realise how it got its ominous name.

The Cambridge Natural History Museum is inviting the public to get up close with some unusual visitors later this month. Live ...

Spring does not always need lift lines, overpriced rooms, or the feeling that half the state had the exact same weekend idea.

The lighthouse rises from a rocky peninsula that juts into Lake Erie like a finger pointing north. That brilliant white tower ...