Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of the Cambrian Period marine arthropod Fuxianhuiid, with gut preserved, discovered in Hunan province in southern China ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

A fossil harvestman identified using advanced imaging techniques shows that extinct arachnid lineages once lived in Europe.

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs ...

Recently, scientists discovered a reptile fossil that provides the missing link between the transformation in the modes of ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by ...

Palaeontologists have used an Ice Age fossil to reveal extinct giant echidnas roamed south-eastern Australia during the ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...