Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...

Fossils suggest Spriggina floundersi, an ancient marine organism, displayed population-level right-handedness. This finding ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than paleontologists. Black market smugglers routinely rob both the East Asian country of its ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.

Arthropleura grew up to 10-1/2 feet (3.2 meters) long Head anatomy indicates Arthropleura ate plants French fossils date to 305 million years ago Oct 10 (Reuters) - During the Carboniferous Period, ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...

The four-inch-wide fragment had been quietly stored for decades in England when it caught the eye of a paleontologist.

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa. In contrast, our ...