Ratno SardiScientists have determined a cave painting depicting what looks to be a hunting scene is more than 44,000 years ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse ...

The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be ...

Indeed, the earliest mammal we are currently aware of is the Brasilodon quadrangularis – a diminutive critter described as ...

The Antarctic sponge may be the oldest animal on Earth, living up to 15,000 years. In the icy waters of Antarctica, ...

A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Researchers made the finding in Sudan after analzying the remains of 30 people (14 females and 16 males) buried in a Nubian ...

Dickinsonia is a fossilised organism considered the oldest-known animal in the geological record. The oval-shaped creature with rib-like features lived about 558 million years ago, in the Ediacaran ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage — a discovery ...