New research shows fossil skin can reveal color patterns in young Diplodocus, changing old ideas about sauropod appearance.

In a hillside in Yunnan province, southwest China, paleontologists have pulled more than 700 fossils from rock that is ...

When it comes to species discovery, Bloomington too has a major crinoid connection. The late Norman Gary Lane, a professor of ...

For years, a slab of sandstone sat cemented into a retaining wall in a suburban Sydney garden, unremarkable to anyone walking ...

Don’t let the clouds fool you — summer break will be here for you and the kids before you can say “screen time.” Lucky for everybody, the Summer of Fun listings have what you need to plan the sunny ...

In 2024, the Western Australian Museum received a donation. It was a koala skull collected from Moondyne Cave in Margaret ...

A rare fossil fish scan reveals brain features and adaptations tied to the transition from aquatic to land animals.

Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

Tyrannosaurs may be famous as fearsome apex predators, but new research reveals a more opportunistic—and slightly grim—side to their behavior. Using high-resolution 3D scans, a researcher identified ...

Fossils and DNA reveal how climate change is shrinking the habitat of an Australian lizard and threatening its future ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Pollen, algae, insects, radiolarians – each unique microfossil holds clues to how Earth has changed over millions of years.