A warm body in the rainforest gives off a loud chemical signal. For most mosquitoes, that signal could belong to almost any ...

Only one specimen of Alcovasaurus has ever been found, named for the tiny Wyoming town of Alcova, where it was discovered ...

The fossil does more than add a new specimen, it adds a test case. According to the University of Minnesota release, ...

A family was going for a beach walk when they found an ancient whale’s fossil. The Davidson family was taking a leisurely ...

Baby dinosaurs weren’t coddled like lion cubs or elephant calves—they were more like prehistoric latchkey kids. New research ...

University of Minnesota researcher Peter Makovicky and Argentinean colleague Sebastián Apesteguía has unveiled a ...

The 90-million-year-old fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur has rewritten history, say scientists. They described the ...

In Argentina's Patagonia region 95 million years ago, some huge dinosaurs roamed the landscape including fearsome meat-eater ...

Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to ...

A study by the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP-CERCA) with the involvement of the UAB indicates that between 12.5 and 9 million years ago, in the Vallès-Penedès basin, rainfall ...

What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than fossil hunting. Ashley and I decided to skip the usual plans and head out to a Florida creek in search of fossils. The trip was short but surprisingly ...