Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era. The trilobite fossil is only the 11 th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to the ...

Is a mysterious, small tyrannosaur fossil from Montana just a juvenile? Or did tiny tyrannosaurs once walk the Earth? New research published in the journal Nature on October 30 offers evidence that ...

Everything about the discovery of a fossilized leatherback sea turtle in Alabama four years ago is fascinating. The findings of the never-before studied species were published in a study Friday, ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...