Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more ...

A new fossil discovery in Canada is rewriting part of the story of how animal life began. The remains of creatures that lived ...

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

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Learn about Earth’s history with five fossils that have stories to tell Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Though massive creatures may look like a dinosaur, the Dimetrodon lived 50 million years before ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

More than 40 years after it was collected, an Antarctic fossil has been recognized as a far more consequential discovery than anyone first realized, according to Sci.News. The bone is now considered ...

The discovery of a tiny foot bone millions of years old reveals Aotearoa New Zealand was once home to a songbird species with potentially unique courtship behaviors, new research published in the ...

The four-inch-wide fragment had been quietly stored for decades in England when it caught the eye of a paleontologist.

Recently identified chili pepper fossils from Boulder and Denver museums challenge millions of years of global tomato evolutionary history. Now, that's some spicy science! Botanists and ...

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