Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body of zombie fungus bursting forth from its head. The insect, along with a ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in Indonesia. A team from the Natural History Museum (MHNG) and the University of ...

The fossil bones were first discovered by a local citizen along the Toyohira River in Sapporo in October 2008.

The relics of dinosaurs and prehistoric species abound in Arizona, telling the story of life on Earth from hundreds of millions of years ago. Based on records from the Paleobiology Database, a public ...