Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

Crack open Illinois’ prehistoric past at this hidden fossil spot, where ordinary rocks can reveal 300-million-year-old ...

This fossil hunt took them into the hills and creek washouts of Alabama, where ancient plant fossils are still hiding in the exposed rock. They were searching for calamites, Lepidodendron, and ...

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...

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

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

A remarkable discovery by the Anning family on England's Lyme Regis cliffs in the early 1800s unearthed an ichthyosaur fossil ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously thought ...