Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

A new fossil discovery in Canada is rewriting part of the story of how animal life began. The remains of creatures that lived ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...

A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

The marine rock around the fossil also suggests the animal likely ended up at sea after it died.

A fossil from an extremely rare dinosaur has resurfaced after spending years hidden away in an unusual place. According to ...

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and ...

Spiders are famous for the business end of their bodies, the sharp mouthparts that seize prey and help explain their ...