A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

In the quiet layers of rock, footprints, bones, and leaves tell a story of worlds lost, and of our own uncertain future. Every year, National Fossil Day invites us to pause and think about the ...

Over 100,000 years ago, a mysterious group of ancient humans walked the lands of eastern Asia. Known as the Juluren—meaning “large head people”—they’ve recently been introduced to science under the ...

An artist’s reconstruction of the fossilized landscape, plants and animals found preserved in a remote bonebed of Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park Illustration by Brian Engh The painted desert ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils from Australia’s Talbragar beds reveal the oldest known midges in the Southern Hemisphere. (CREDIT: Gondwana Research) ...

Scientists discovered a giant echidna fossil in Australia that shows these animals lived across a wider area during the Ice ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

For over two decades, a group of unusually small dinosaur fossils had experts scratching their heads. Once thought to belong ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEWPORT — Tucked into the foggy forests of the Oregon Coast lies a collection of ancient wonders. Dozens of dolphin skulls stare ...