A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

A tranche of fossils from the end of the Ediacaran Period has shown up branches of the tree of life previously thought to have appeared millions of years later in the Cambrian. The discovery fills a ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History has added a new, rare fossil to its collection: a dome-shaped skull of a Pachycephalosaurus, a type of dinosaur that lived about 67 million years ...

The fossil was discovered in 2024 in the Badlands of North Dakota. A team of faculty and alumni from Winona State excavated the fossil in the summer of 2025. When it comes to staying informed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's recreation shows Epiatheracerium itjilik in its forested lake habitat on Devon Island in the Early Miocene. The plants ...

At Rockport State Recreation Area, visitors can explore a fossil filled quarry and look for ancient remains that date back more than 400 million years.

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...