Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where ...

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science are celebrating a discovery that they have called "nothing short of ...

Researchers collected nearly three tonnes of sediments containing the fossils of animals that roamed Earth around 70 million years ago.

The newly-found fossils are 209 million years old and include pterosaurs, primitive frogs and lizard-like reptiles ...

Nestled in the vibrant Mission District at 824 Valencia Street, Paxton Gate has been luring the curious, the macabre-minded, and the botanically obsessed through its doors for decades.

The ‘Great Dying’ wiped out 90% of life, then came 5 million years of lethal heat. New fossils explain why Ford workers told ...

The oldest carnivorous plant fossil ever found was preserved in amber more than 34 million years ago. The fossil showed not only normal leaves but also tentacle-like protrusions.

The horror can only be seen in slow motion. When a fly touches the outstretched leaves of the Cape sundew, it quickly finds itself unable to take back to the air. The insect is trapped. Goopy mucilage ...

Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean While low sea levels helped sebecids spread, rising waters left them isolated.

The earliest carnivorous plant fossils date back approximately 40 million years, though molecular evidence suggests the trait may have emerged much earlier. For the Giant Pitcher Plant specifically, ...