Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

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 ...

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 ...

The phrase “leave no stone unturned” has taken on new meaning for paleontologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who discovered a special fossil hidden right under their noses — beneath ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. Frustratingly, fossils from later in the Cambrian period are ...

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science already houses a stunning collection of some 4.3 million relics spanning eras, fields, and cultures. As it happens, the museum is sitting on even deeper history ...