Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, a tiny human relative once lived alongside dwarf elephants, giant rats, and ...

The dinosaur measured about 23 feet long, making it relatively small for a titanosaur, researchers said ...

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

This is the first evidence of dinosaurs ever collected from Antarctica. (British Antarctic Survey) A fossil that has been ...

A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains ever ...

Tiny fossil teeth from Alaska are changing how scientists view mammal life and migration in the ancient Arctic.

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, bryozoans seemed oddly absent from the Cambrian explosion, the burst of ...

A seven-year-old Calgary girl’s search for bugs and rocks at a playground ended with a rare fossil discovery now headed to ...