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

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by ...

Discoveries at a Üçağızlı II cave in southern Turkey suggest that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens made similar tools, hunted ...

Horseshoe crabs show up in the fossil record over 445 million years ago. Their blood is valuable in testing vaccines.

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

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

Forest walks get wonderfully strange when a North Carolina trail hides fossilized seashells nowhere near the ocean.

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For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans.

A French court ordered TotalEnergies to include Scope 3 emissions in its climate plan, setting a global benchmark for corporate accountability. Read why it matters.

A simple fossil hunt on Florida’s Peace River quickly turned into something much bigger. Shark teeth, fossilized bones, turtle shell fragments and mysterious prehistoric remains started appearing ...