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

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, ...

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.

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

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

A rare discovery in Galicia, Spain reveals a trilobite fossil transformed into a Roman-era amulet. This ancient relic, millions of years old, highlights how fossils were valued and repurposed for ...

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.

Naperville Park District’s annual Wonderful World of Wheels touch-a truck event will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 15 at Wolf’s Crossing Community Park, 3252 Wolf’s Crossing Road.

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

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.