Two Homo erectus skull fragments discovered during dredging in the Madura Strait in Indonesia have opened a new window onto ...

We’ve all seen some version of the classic evolutionary diagram. A fish crawls out of a primordial swamp, sprouts legs, ...

A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have discovered a new 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil in Canada, challenging the idea that late Cambrian life ...

Not every scientific discovery begins with a dramatic excavation. Sometimes the most important part comes later, after the fieldwork is over and the fossil has spent years waiting for someone to look ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan: Paleocanna tentaculum, a soft-bodied, tube-shaped polyp with a ring of ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth. Long extinct, this predatory fish ...

An international research team has discovered a massive 'whale necropolis' in the south-eastern Indian Ocean, containing ...

A kraken-like octopus the size of a lorry prowled Earth’s oceans back when dinosaurs ruled the land, new fossil discoveries have suggested. Scientists have believed that sharks and giant marine ...

Marine fossils discovery suggests Baripada was under sea millions of years ago: Researcher ...