For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

Scientists discover 90 new species in Chinese fossils revealing how deep-ocean refuges preserved life after mass extinction ...

Half a billion years ago, a shallow sea in what is now Siberia teemed with creatures that look more like science fiction than prehistory. Locked in that ancient seabed, scientists have now identified ...

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Thanks to a handful of BST Lagerstätten from around the Sinsk event, paleontologists have managed to reconstruct some of the ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the “Biological Big Bang.” ...

Imagine pulling a dusty bone from a museum drawer and realising it doesn’t fit anywhere in nature’s family tree, like finding ...

Scientists have discovered 3,500-year-old rhinoceros bone fragments near Coimbatore, revealing that rhinos once lived in ...

Follow the money and Louisiana’s so-called “grassroots” energy opposition starts to look a lot less local. Over the past several years, more than $50 million in out-of-state funding has poured into ...

A newly discovered raptor had a knobby bump on its head, suggesting that, like some larger dinosaurs, it engaged in ...