A unique salamander-like animal with a twisted jaw has made experts rethink what happened after the Carboniferous Rainforest ...

Fossils are like nature’s time machines, giving us a peek into life on Earth millions of years ago. The oldest animal fossils tell stories about how complex life began and evolved. Be it simple ...

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...

The first paleontological study of its kind is challenging what we thought we knew about the state’s natural history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner Looking again through the magnifying lens at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Here's why Dickinsonia challenges our previously held ...

Being a punk rocker means being perpetually misunderstood. So perhaps it’s vindication that that some seafloor fossils, once considered just piles of decomposing gunk, may now be reclassified as ...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Recent archaeological excavations at a highway construction site in West Texas have uncovered the fossilized remains of "megafauna," according to a release from the Texas Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of the Cambrian Period marine arthropod Fuxianhuiid, with gut preserved, discovered in Hunan province in southern China ...