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 ...

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

The Waukesha Biota was the center for massive paleontological information, and new revelations found the origin of a ...

Imagine digging in your garden and coming across something unexpected: a fossil! Here's what you should do to identify it and figure out if it's valuable.

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

For a change, this week’s column does not feature food. Instead, I couldn’t resist writing about National Fossil Day, which is celebrated on the Wednesday of the second full week of October. This year ...

Think you’re a Pennsylvania expert? State symbols highlight the unique characteristics of each state in the country. They’re chosen as a way to represent the culture, history and ...

One of the planet’s most successful arthropods, trilobites, abounded in the oceans from about 520 million to 250 million years ago. Trilobite exoskeletons are found on all seven continents and are a ...