Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Fossils from giant tortoises, armadillos and other Ice Age-era species challenge previous assumptions about the region’s ...

COMAL COUNTY, Texas — A Texas paleontologist has made a discovery that could re-write what scientists know about prehistoric life in the state. In March, John Moretti, a paleontologist with the ...

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and Hailey Rauch, collection assistant and master’s student, shows off the 2-foot ...

A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

A giant marine crocodile over 30 feet long has been discovered in Tunisia, and it’s already changing what scientists thought ...