Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

Some fossils of dinosaurs and marine reptiles include preserved skin, but there have been few attempts to work out their skin colour from fossils. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

Over the past decade, scientists have discovered that melanosomes from dinosaur feathers and skin fossils could be used to discover their coloring. Melanosomes are a type of organelle in cells ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

Dubbed Dinosaur Choir, the craniums in question use fossil evidence to recreate the vocalizations of species that haven’t been heard in millions of years. You don’t need to be a musician to ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...