Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

A remarkably preserved pterosaur fossil from northeastern Brazil has yielded the first molecular evidence ever recovered from ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

A 300-million-year-old fish kept its fossilized brain, letting scientists read brain shape from skulls of similar ancient ...

Spiders are famous for the business end of their bodies, the sharp mouthparts that seize prey and help explain their ...

More than 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called a pterosaur flew over the oceans hunting squid and fish. Much more recently, one of its wing bones was discovered in Brazil, transformed over ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million years ago. At McGraths Flat, scientists have uncovered fossils preserved in ...