Cutting-edge digital fossil-mining reveals early squid evolution, diversification, and importance in marine ecosystems.

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on Earth, predating Australian finds by 220 million years. This discovery ...

Among the fossils, they found the first ever hominin remains from submerged Sundaland, and one of them belonged to H. erectus.

A new look into Colorado's Dinosaur Ridge could shed light on how dinosaurs mated.

He was involved in studying the new fossils and using it to recreate the evolutionary history of modern starfish and their relatives. “We found clear evidence for a characteristic that links this ...

Rudyard brought fossils of all sorts back to life at Rudyard's Annual Fossil Festival. The Pancake Breakfast started off the festival events at 8 a.m. Saturday morning. Food and craft vendors kept ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head.

Marine brachiopod fossils found among Roman artifacts on Morocco’s Mogador Island predate the island itself and may have ended up there via ancient trade networks.