The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Discover 25 bizarre facts about fossils, from ancient brains to fighting dinosaurs! Uncover the weirdest secrets of prehistoric life and explore mind-blowi ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

A new genetic analysis of Neanderthal remains from Stajnia Cave offers an unusually detailed glimpse into a small group that ...

The kraken: a giant squid or octopus of myth, seems to have swam in the Cretaceous oceans, a Japanese study shows.

Fossils reveal an ancient platypus species (Obdurodon insignis) that still had teeth, offering insight into how this unusual ...

We all know that everything kicked off when the Big Bang exploded our universe into reality, right? Well, not necessarily. A ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian explosion ...

A fossil site in Australia shows iron can preserve soft tissues, changing how scientists search for ancient ecosystems.

Black holes that formed before the Big Bang could still exist today as ‘cosmic fossils’, potentially helping to explain the ...