Scientists discovered that some of Earth’s supposed earliest animal fossils were actually giant ancient microbes.

Ancient feeding confirmed: Harvard scientists found quantitative evidence that Cambrian luolishaniids used suspension feeding, filtering plankton from seawater. Modern parallels: Predator–prey size ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...

Clifty Falls State Park offers a window into a rich marine ecosystem that formed millions of years ago.

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

Over 500 million years ago, a small marine creature swam through Cambrian waters. Its name: Mollisonia symmetrica. Long thought to be a distant relative of modern horseshoe crabs, new research now ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

Ancient fossils were stolen from Death Valley National Park recently, citing a need to curb vandalism and theft at national parks. Fossil footprints that scientists say are three to five million years ...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered new information suggesting a potential connection between Homo ...

The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule prehistoric seas.