A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made ...

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

Modern mammals have unique hearing abilities, able to sense a broad range of volumes and frequencies using middle-ear ...

In 1958, an Australian teenager named Bruce Runnegar uncovered a mysterious dinosaur footprint during a visit to a quarry ...

University of Queensland research has confirmed Brisbane's only dinosaur fossil is Australia's oldest, dating back to the ...