Learn how a second pair of eyes helped this 518-million-year-old fish evade predators.

Conspiracy theories on the internet attribute these fossils to everything from a 'great flood' to a prank of Gandalf monster.

Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...

California, the Golden State, is home to a diverse range of animal life, and it is no surprise that the state has designated interesting official animals to represent its unique identity. From the ...

You might have an idea of what a fossil looks like – but these fossils are slightly different (and will change the way you ...

Scientists uncover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that may represent Earth’s earliest GPS, revealing how ancient ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar. New analysis of 443-million-year-old fossils from Scotland shows that some ...

A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known ...