A sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic has produced one of the oldest known three-dimensional animal fossils. It is a ...

"This is really weird, because in all of the fossils that I know of, no one has ever found a mass of stones inside the throat of an animal." The placement and chemical composition of the rocks ...

A fossilized Charnia has been found that kept its 3D shape after being engulfed in sediment on the seafloor just before the ...

Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal ...

Rocks that fell from a cliff and split open in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic revealed a fern-shaped creature that ...

Scientists uncovered a rare baby dinosaur in South Korea and named it Doolysaurus after a famous cartoon character. Using cutting-edge CT scans, they discovered hidden bones—including a skull—inside ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

City crews working on an infrastructure project in Oceanside, California, found fossils of a prehistoric animal that could be ...

An Oxford-led team reworked the molecular clock for animal origins and landed on 800 to 700 million years ago, near the start of Earth's ice ages.

The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...