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

NANCHANG — A tiny fossil dinosaur egg unearthed in East China's Jiangxi province has been officially certified by Guinness ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

Imagine going on holiday to the beach and finding a rare 200-million-year-old fossil?! Well, that's exactly what happened to ...

DINOSAUR, Colo. — Some recent parking lot construction work in Dinosaur National Monument has revealed previously uncovered dinosaur fossils, the National Park Service said in a media release. The new ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

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

The discovery of an enigmatic ape's 18 million year-old fossils in Egypt hints that the ancestors of all living apes, a group that includes humans, may have originated in northeast Africa or Arabia, a ...

New fossil discoveries suggest existence of giant ‘kraken’ octopuses as large as lorries - Paleontologists believe these ...

Palaeontologists have used an Ice Age fossil found 120 years ago in an underground cave to reveal extinct giant echidnas roamed south-eastern ...