Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...

In the late 1990s in the Ajimu region of Japan's Oita Prefecture, researchers discovered three fossilized vertebrae belonging ...

Around 1,800 years ago, a fossilized spinal bone lay on the windswept beaches of Roman Britain until a curious passerby ...

Until now, the earliest known instance of human interest in ichthyosaurs was in 1699, but a peculiar discovery pushes that ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

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

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by ...

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

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...