Appearance Although we still don’t know exactly what every dinosaur might have looked like, their bones provide important hints. For example, by comparing fossils from different individuals ...

The world’s best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago. But there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek.

Mystery Fossils of Fierce, Prehistoric Marine Predator with a 40-Foot Neck Identified Learn why researchers identified some of North America's most famous fossils as Traskasaura sandrae.

Geologists Found the Fossil of a Stunning 30-Foot Sea Dragon in Mississippi, of All Places The mosasaur was one heck of an aquatic apex predator.

Tiny detail on animal bone changes what we know about our human ancestors The first evidence that hominins butchered several animals at the site in Romania at least 1.95 million years ago has been ...

Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.

Mar. 25—By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News A small storefront on Main Street in Blue Earth has been home to many businesses since it was built in 1892. Its creaky wooden floor is now ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth storefront to share his passion for paleontology and to make science more ...

The new findings potentially give scientists a “ready-made trove of fossil candidates” to explore.

The feet support the human body when standing, walking, running, and more. They are complex structures with 26 bones. Learn more about foot bones and foot anatomy here.

Scientists know this because they have examined 1.5-million-year-old fossils they unearthed and have concluded they represent the first example of two sets of hominin footprints made about the ...

When Clark first saw these fossils, they didn’t immediately jump out as something special. All three were just the part of the foot bone where the toes attach called the tarsometatarsus.