Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence that dinosaur fossils may still contain traces of their original proteins, ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

A team of paleontologists has uncovered hundreds of fossilized dinosaur eggs dating back 76 million years in the Provence ...

Remarkably preserved relics from southern China — more than half representing species new to science — are transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of true bug that has claws. Amber from Myanmar’s Kachin region has ...

Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

The discovery of 280-million-year-old reptile embryos in Brazil and Uruguay has provided paleontologists with the oldest ...

Platypuses swam with dolphins 25 million years ago, reveals an "exciting" new platypus fossil find. Paleontologists made the rare discovery east of the Flinders Ranges in remote outback South ...