The National Park Service has announced another ancient shark discovery at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. The latest find, named ...

A new species of ancient shark has been discovered at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, officials said.

While exploring deep underground, nearly 3 miles into a remote cave system, we stumbled upon what appears to be an ancient snake fossil. In this video, we document the journey to the discovery, ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back about two million ...

The fossil possibilities were starting to mount up. Some researchers propose that this fossilized skull found in Harbin City in northeast China belonged to a Denisovan. Credit: Q. Ji et al./Innovation ...

The untrained eye might have seen nothing out of the ordinary — a jumbled rock in the shape of a fist, not the vertebra of an ancient beast. Fortunately, this dinosaur fossil in Denver was found ...

The bones, dated between 23 and 20 million years, were found alongside fossils of boneless marine creatures such as snails, oysters and clams that lived in shallow sea.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery ...