A rare assemblage of micro- and macro-fossils found in a roadside outcrop in South China, featuring thin ribbons, branching ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

The behavior resembles that of modern fur seals and marine crocodiles, according to a study published by Cambridge University Press ...

Paleontologist Brian Curtice joins 'Fox & Friends Weekend' to showcase dinosaur fossils and discuss prehistoric history, ...

The question of when animals first evolved is one that has confounded scientists since the time of Charles Darwin. Studying ...

Mysterious 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils may be the oldest evidence of an animal using Earth’s magnetic field like a ...

Animals seem to appear in the fossil record fairly suddenly, a little over half a billion years ago. Yet rocks can preserve ...

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution ...

When people think of fossils, many may imagine old stones lined up in museums, like dinosaur bones or ammonites.However, the ...

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

Relatively few fossils belonging to the enigmatic early human have been unearthed in the past. Two new studies describe seven ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very ...