Nestled in the Linxia Basin, Hezheng County lies at the boundary of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. The region boasts a continuous sedimentary stratum formed no later than 30 million ...

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.

It's extremely rare to find a complete skeleton of a dinosaur. It's rarer still that such a skeleton needs to be found twice. Such is the fate of "Stan" the T. rex, a massive, mostly complete skeleton ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over ...

The fossil leech compared with a modern leech. Double arrows indicate the large caudal sucker used for attachment, single arrows indicate body annulations. A newly described fossil reveals that ...

On the western slopes of Colorado, there is a national monument dedicated to those animals that have long since gone extinct ...