The 110 million-year-old fossil of a nodosaur preserves the animal’s armor, skin, and what may have been its final meal.

This journey back in time starts in southern Alberta, two hours east of Calgary, where the ground cracks open to reveal a prehistoric archive dating back some 76 million years. Here, the rolling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic Explorer Lindsay Zanno and her team ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils. A computer ...

The bones are the first to be excavated in more than a century.

As the Saharan sun rose on my waylaid team, one morning in September 2022, it seemed to burn with particular intensity. For nearly three weeks we’d been holed up in a mud-walled compound in the oasis ...

One scorching day last September, Annie Méchin crouched over a slab of red clay on a remote patch of farmland near Marseille, on France’s Mediterranean coast. Méchin was scraping away at the clay when ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...