Missouri’s most common fossil is an invertebrate, the crinoid, also known as “sea lilies”. Despite the name, they’re more ...

Imaging technology has revolutionized paleontology, allowing scientists to study fossils that are buried deep in the rock or ...

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

A team of paleontologists working near the village of Loarre, nestled in the province of Huesca, have unearthed at least 30 ...

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common. By Rebecca Dzombak About 70 percent of the ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old. Today on the show, Regina G. Barber speaks with ...