Soft tissue preservation in fossils does not seem to depend upon the species, age or burial environment of the fossils in ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

The coelacanth is often referred to as a “living fossil,” a term that evokes both its ancient lineage and remarkable survival ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

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Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today's loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

Paleontologists have been arguing whether modern birds developed before or after the infamous asteroid for decades. Now, a ...

A time capsule to the dinosaur age, dawn redwoods trees are growing in Michigan. You may think of redwoods as growing only along California's coast, where numerous national and state parks are ...

Dinosaurs, an ABC TV program following a family of dinosaurs realized through elaborate animatronics, isn’t super well-known, especially by younger viewers. The exploits of Earl and Fran Sinclair and ...

Kirsten Weir says husband David worries people will think he's their sons' grandpa, but despite the age gap, their marriage ...