What started as routine prep work for a new highway has turned into an extraordinary dig into Texas's ancient past. While surveying land for the construction of Loop 88 near Lubbock, the Texas ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Crews uncover Ice Age megafauna fossils during a Texas Loop 88 highway project, offering a rare glimpse into the state’s ...

A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a ...

The remains of an Ice Age era animal have been unearthed in Lubbock during a road construction project. Here's what it was ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

A 9-year-old boy's accidental discovery of a 1.2-million-year-old stegomastodon skull in New Mexico has stunned scientists ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Two Eromanga women will have their contributions to the field of palaeontology recognised this Mother’s Day with a newly ...

Fossil teeth show extinct giant kangaroos spent their lives ... The extinction of Australia’s megafauna – long-vanished beasts such the “marsupial lion” Thylacoleo and the three-tonne Diprotodon – has ...

To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...