Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan ...

A fossil that appears to shine like gold has been quietly misleading scientists for decades. Found in black shale deposits in ...

The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...

Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

A fossil once believed to show the world’s oldest imprint of an octopus – some 300 million years old – is actually another ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the ...