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

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

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 ...

Horseshoe crabs, called living fossils, have been wandering the ocean's shallow waters for 445 million years and are still ...

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

Fossils are a great way to learn about the animals that used to walk this earth but sometimes it seems as though we find ...

A fish thought to be evolution’s time capsule just surprised scientists. A detailed dissection of the coelacanth — a 400-million-year-old species often called a “living fossil ...

A hiker in Badlands National Park discovered a Leptauchenia fossil, a type of creature that paleontologists describe as “monkey-faced little sheep and llama-like animals.” Unsplash via Zachary ...

A tiny fossil of a sea creature that lived more than half a billion years ago sheds new light on the evolution of arthropods, the most species-rich and successful group of animals to inhabit Earth, ...

About 400 million years ago, some intrepid fish became the first vertebrate animals to walk on land. Now a fossil jawbone found in northern Australia might help explain what these pioneering fish ate.

Ancient warming reshaped ecosystems as flowers shifted to animal pollination, revealing climate’s impact on interactions.

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