Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

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

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

Those who venture into Foul Air Cave, below Buchan township in eastern Victoria, quickly realize how it got its ominous name.

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...

Scientists discovered a giant echidna fossil in Australia that shows these animals lived across a wider area during the Ice ...

The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...