What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

Fossilized human footprints embedded in the gypsum sediment at White Sands National Park.

A field trip to visit the St. Louis Science Center, where we learn all about fossils. This exciting episode is tailored for PreK to K-5 learners, featuring a diverse mix of engaging topics. Each ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about the fossil trade, and get information, facts, and more about the big business of dinosaur bones.

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history. In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young ...

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender's Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of damaged hemoglobin in the hollow, blood vessel–like structures of dinosaur fossils. The researchers used a novel technique they hope may put an enduring ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave in ...