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 ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.

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