Early eukaryotes, the lineage that later gave rise to animals, plants and fungi, may have depended on oxygen from the start.

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...

There's a new T. rex in the fossil record, only this one terrorized the ancient seas. New research led by scientists at the ...

Scientists have identified a massive ancient sea predator from fossils found in Texas, describing it as the "T. rex of the ...

The discovery of polystrate fossils has sparked debate over their implications for the biblical flood narrative.

Earth is home to millions of animal species today, from tiny insects and marine worms to giant whales. For many years, ...

Ready for a “root” awakening? Towering fossilized tree trunks entombed upright in layers of rock across the US are stirring ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

On Thursday, researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, and Southern ...

The Pokémon Fossil Museum opens at Chicago's Field Museum on Friday, the first time the exhibition has been put on display ...

This fossil hunt took them into the hills and creek washouts of Alabama, where ancient plant fossils are still hiding in the exposed rock. They were searching for calamites, Lepidodendron, and ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...