A fossil found in Argentina shows that up to the very end of the age of dinosaurs, they faced serious competition from other ...

What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, for a long time considered a key to the distant past, is now in ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.

A stunning discovery in North Greenland has reclassified strange squid-like fossils, revealing that nectocaridids were not ...

Unique evolutionary history The long-beaked echidna is one of just five living species of egg-laying mammals on Earth. These creatures belong to an ancient lineage called monotremes, which ...

If textbooks ever made you believe mammals like humans, cats, and kangaroos first evolved somewhere up north, think again. A ...

Scientists examining a rare fossil found in Canada’s Burgess Shale have discovered a predator with three eyes that lived over 500 million years ago. The fossil species, named Mosura fentoni for ...