Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

A treasure trove of exceptionally preserved early animals from more than half a billion years ago has been discovered in the ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Cambridge found more than 1,500 small, carbonaceous fossils in samples from ...

A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting ...

Whether you love spiders or can't be within 10 feet of them, you probably think of them crawling around on land. Historically ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Paleontologists named the worm Kraytdraco spectatus, for its resemblance to a Star Wars monster. They say it sheds light on ...

Recently unearthed fossils from the Cambrian period shed light on a key stage of evolution, when life became much more ...