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The earliest animals may have evolved hundreds of millions of years before their first unmistakable fossils appear in the ...

New research suggests plesiosaurs ate shellfish from the seafloor, then swam to river deltas to bring up the parts they ...

A newly identified 240-million-year-old animal from Tanzania is forcing scientists to rethink the early dinosaur timeline. Dinodontosaurus isiyavamanda belongs to a group previously known only from ...

Scientists studying ancient Australian rocks uncovered more than 12,000 fossils from some of the oldest known eukaryotes on Earth. These early complex cells lived in settings ranging from coastal ...

A new study has identified trace fossils of a large horseshoe crab species dating back more than 240 million years, from the ...

Fossils from Alaska’s Prince Creek Formation show that a surprisingly diverse group of dinosaurs lived within the ancient ...

The fossils turned up in what’s known as the Santiago formation, a layer of sedimentary rock near the surface of the ground ...

Rocks that fell from a cliff and split open in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic revealed a fern-shaped creature that ...

City crews working on an infrastructure project in Oceanside, California, found fossils of a prehistoric animal that could be ...

Teeth and bone fragments unearthed in a cave in China, along with animal bones and stone tools, help paint a picture of Denisovan life.

Chinese staff members prepare to pack a cultural relic in New York on Sept. 17. The U.S. has returned 64 Chinese cultural ...