Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

In the depths of the world's longest cave, researchers have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 340-million-year-old shark.

Deep within Mammoth Cave, the world’s longest cave system, paleontologists have uncovered the remains of a never-before-seen ...

Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...

The study was co-authored by Professor Rolf Quam and graduate student Brian Keeling. The team analyzed fossils that point to a serious Neanderthal population dip around 110,000 years ago. The ...

The fossils recovered in the area are from about 200 million years ago, in the early Jurassic period, when the land used to be covered by a body of water known as Lake Whitmore. The fossils are ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...

Among these, an uncovering of Sanfordiacaulis densifolia, a tree species from 350 million years ago, during the Carboniferous period, is something of a revelation. While no longer alive, their fossils ...

These specimens demonstrate the convergent evolution of highly developed simple eyes in at least two additional lineages of lacewings, showcasing the enormous diversity of lacewing larvae in the ...