This documentary examines a plant-eating dinosaur with one of the most unusual mouths ever found in the fossil record. Its wide jaw and constantly replaced teeth suggested a feeding style unlike any ...

‘Tis the season for bones and fossils. Indeed, as Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow felt that was the perfect theme for his offensive line this holiday season. The official Bengals TikTok made ...

David Fickling is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering climate change and energy. Previously, he worked for Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. The past year began with ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

The tradition of quarterbacks buying gifts for their offensive linemen has long been practiced in the NFL, but Joe Burrow might be in a league of his own when it comes to playing Santa. As ESPN’s Ben ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

A strange Jurassic lizard discovered on Scotland’s Isle of Skye is shaking up what we know about snake evolution. Named Breugnathair elgolensis, the “false snake of Elgol” combined hook-like, ...

Everything old is new again: These paleontological discoveries of 2025 — from tiny dinosaurs to zombifying fungi — opened up brand-new insights into the distant past. Earth resonated with the song of ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say. When you purchase through links on our site, ...