An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known to science, according to new research. The prehistoric ant lived among dinosaurs 113 ...

From feathered dinosaurs to frozen mammoths, fossils keep upending science with discoveries that rewrite the history of life. National Fossil Day is not just about admiring dinosaur skeletons or ...

One of Colorado's most astonishing and coincidental fossil discoveries was found earlier this year, right beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, museum officials announced ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science made a surprise discovery during a project on the museum's parking lot: a 70 million-year-old dinosaur fossil. The fossil was discovered in January as the ...

An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science, dating back 161 million years, with an anatomy that is strikingly similar to some of today’s species.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A new dinosaur fossil at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science was found buried hundreds of feet under the facility’s parking lot in January, making the ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. Subscribe to our ...

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DENVER (KDVR) — Yabba Dabba Doo! The Denver Museum of Nature & Science announced on Wednesday that it discovered a nearly 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil underneath its parking lot in City Park in ...