Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Spriggina floundersi was no bigger than a few centimeters, lived on ancient seafloors in what is now South Australia, and ...

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

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Learn about Earth’s history with five fossils that have stories to tell Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Though massive creatures may look like a dinosaur, the Dimetrodon lived 50 million years before ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

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

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

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

Recently identified chili pepper fossils from Boulder and Denver museums challenge millions of years of global tomato evolutionary history. Now, that's some spicy science! Botanists and ...

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

For decades, students at San Pedro High walked over millions of ancient fossils hidden beneath the concrete. During a recent construction project, workers discovered the massive collection, which ...