This National Fossil Day, take an inside look at the effort to free the skeleton for research after more than a century in museum fossil halls ...

Opening March 29, the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum teaches how our world continues to evolve. USA TODAY has an exclusive sneak peek.

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science houses more than 100,000 specimens, one of the largest collections in the Southwest.

To answer these questions, all the relevant fossil data, drawn from many museums, needs to be easily accessible online to enable large-scale synthesis of those data.

Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they stumbled across a T.

Over 100 million years ago, long before the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, there lived a group of massive clams called Inoceramus.

Discovered on an outback station by a neighbour and potentially 100 million years old, the fossil will be put on display at ...

Lucy was recovered in Ethiopia in 1974 from what was an ancient lake near fossilized remains of crocodiles, turtle eggs and crab claws. She was a member of Australopithecus afarensis, an early human ...

An almost complete fossil of a marine reptile has been discovered in outback North West Queensland and will be donated to the ...