Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of the Cambrian Period marine arthropod Fuxianhuiid, with gut preserved, discovered in Hunan province in southern China ...

In 2015, a fossil treasure trove, comprising 30,000 teeth and bones, was discovered on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. After years of work, paleontologists have identified these fossils as ...

The newly classified species, named Plesionectes longicollum ("long-necked near-swimmer"), represents a previously unknown type of plesiosauroid—the group of long-necked marine reptiles that inhabited ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost identical segments. Projecting from each is a delicate, gill-like structure. It ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

According to experts, the two whale skeletons found are "among the most complete in Europe". View on euronews ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the ...