The fossil pearl, created by an extinct massive clam species, is the largest ever discovered in Australia, experts said.

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

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, ...

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.

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.

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

Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest evidence of human-Neanderthal interbreeding: a 140,000-year-old child from ...

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

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors ...

A shark fossil found in limestone quarries in northeastern Mexico shines light on the appearance of an ancient predator.

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