The newly discovered trilobite may be hundreds of millions of years old, but its use 2,000 years ago as an amulet is the ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature is one of the earliest ancestors of a group known as arthropods, which ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils.

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

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, ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with ...

The 500-million-year-old fossil, containing a species named in honor of the krayt dragons in Star Wars, is a much larger ...

The new fossil was unearthed in a remote part of Argentinian Patagonia—and had teeth comparable to a T. rex, says National ...

The newly unearthed fossil has teeth that are comparable to a T. rex, according to National Geographic Explorer Diego Pol.

Over 100 million years ago, long before the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, there lived a group of massive clams called Inoceramus.

Fossils suggested they were strictly land-based, but Mollisonia tells a deeper story. According to Strausfeld, early arachnids may have fed on ancient insects and millipedes that also made the ...