Left on their own by adults, the young dinosaurs sank into the mud beside a lake and died 90 million years ago in what would become the Gobi Desert.

A 300-million-year-old fossilized brain has been discovered by researchers studying a type of fish that once lived in what is now Kansas and Oklahoma.

Scientists with the Virginia Museum of Natural History have confirmed the discovery of a 500 million-year-old fossil called a stromatolite.Officials at the Martinsville museum say the fossil was found at the Boxley Blue Ridge Quarry.The museum says...

A public relations coordinator for a Texas museum recently spotted the fossilized bones of a 75-million-year-old duckbilled dinosaur while taking a tour of the area where a mummified duckbill was found eight years ago.The mummified brachylophosaurus,...

New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known.Discovered in a cave in Oregon, fossil feces yielded DNA indicating these early residents were related to people living in...

A geologic mapping project led to the finding of a 10 million-year-old fossil that’s now being studied at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.Dave Love, a geologist with the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, spotted a...

In a Feb. 13 story about a fossil of a previously unrecognized bat species, The Associated Press reported erroneously when the species lived. The bat species lived about 52 million years ago, not 25.5 million.

A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.The discovery revealed the most primitive...

A federal agency’s decision not to renew a mining permit for a rock quarry near Las Cruces will better protect a repository of pre-dinosaur era fossil tracks.”Our sort of new focus is on trackways protection and trying to reclaim this mine site so the...