Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Answer: Great white sharks, but the number of attacks is small. There have been 59 fatal great white shark attacks since — ...

Fossils can reveal far more than the shapes of ancient creatures. Molecules preserved inside old animal bones provide clues about past diseases, what those animals ate, and the climates they lived in.

In a remarkable discovery, researchers have unearthed 10 new species of fossilized spiders from the Mesozoic era, including one whose eyes still reflect light, 110 million years after its death. This ...

A pair of fossils once thought to be the youngest woolly mammoth remains ever found in Alaska have turned out to be something entirely different: whale bones. What seemed like a groundbreaking ...