Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian ...

Fossilized skin impressions uncovered in central Germany are now regarded as the oldest known evidence of reptile skin.

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Scientists have uncovered intricately preserved fossils of trilobites that are providing new insights into the extinct invertebrates’ anatomy. The animals had been buried in modern-day Morocco after ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species, may have ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

The fish were found with hot glass in their gills, likely from flaming debris. The discovery of a fossilized fish may offer a glimpse into the day an asteroid hit the earth and wiped dinosaurs off the ...