A newly recognized "king" of the ancient seas is making waves after scientists revisited old fossils and realized they ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than ...

A cave on New Zealand’s North Island has revealed a fossil assemblage dating back more than one million years, exposing the ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species.

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story ...

An eminent fossil hunter takes the reins at the National Academy of Sciences in a turbulent moment for American researchers.

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the ...

Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...