A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

By examining these chemical patterns in tooth enamel, we can determine whether animals primarily fed on trees and shrubs or ...

Scientists have discovered fossils in China that reveal a crucial transition from simple to complex life on Earth ...

Anacondas were already massive when they appeared more than 12 million years ago. Fossils now show that their size has barely ...

Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This ...

Scientists discovered a giant echidna fossil in Australia that shows these animals lived across a wider area during the Ice ...

Nanotyrannus, once dismissed as just a teenage T. rex, appears to have been its own distinct species after all. Scientists ...

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Afossil uncovered along the Yangtze River in China is forcing scientists to rethink not just the origins of sponges but also ...