The Kimberley region in the north-west corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Long before modern pigs rooted through forests and farmyards, their prehistoric relatives roamed ancient landscapes. And they ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several fossils with possible cut marks from Grăunceanu, Romania. Briana Pobiner Looking again through the magnifying lens at the ...

BEIJING — 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 aftermath ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

The Oldest ‘Animal Vomit’ Has Finally Been Identified, and It’s Not From Dinosaurs at All ...

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl across Earth with body plans that echo deep time. Strictly speaking, ...

LUBBOCK, Texas - Recent archaeological excavations at a highway construction site in West Texas have uncovered the fossilized remains of "megafauna," according to a release from the Texas Department ...

Being a punk rocker means being perpetually misunderstood. So perhaps it’s vindication that that some seafloor fossils, once considered just piles of decomposing gunk, may now be reclassified as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Here's why Dickinsonia challenges our previously held ...