A Texas paleontologist has made a discovery that could re-write what scientists know about prehistoric life in the state. In ...

It is not every day you get to walk through an Ohio park knowing the ground beneath your feet was once part of an ancient sea ...

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see the world using four camera-type eyes, reshaping our understanding of how ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life ...

Modern Nautilus and Allonautilus species inhabit deeper waters than their extinct ancestors did over 500 million years ago.

Researchers found a long-lost ice age ecosystem in Bender's Cave, Texas ...

Ancient fossils were stolen from Death Valley National Park recently, citing a need to curb vandalism and theft at national parks. Fossil footprints that scientists say are three to five million years ...

More than three million years ago, in the area that is now Ethiopia, our early human ancestors lived in a landscape that ...

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of ...

A fast, land-running Triassic croc reveals how convergent evolution shaped predator bodies across time and environments.