Paleontologists from the Inland Northwest gathered to share their experiences with fossils and how they share stories about ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has opened a new window into one of the most fascinating chapters in Earth’s ...

Scientists at MIT have uncovered compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals. Chemical fossils ...

With C30 and C31 sterols now validated as biomarkers of ancient sponges, the team plans to expand their search to other ...

Some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge, according to MIT geochemists who unearthed new evidence in very old rocks. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT What were ...

Chinese scientists have precisely dated a rare dinosaur egg discovered in central China to around 86 million years ago, using a method never before applied to fossilized eggshells. The fossil was ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

Left: depiction of the penis worm, courtesy of Rhydian Evans. Right, image of krayt dragon from Star Wars. It’s hard to imagine it nowadays, but the Grand Canyon used to be part of an ocean 500 ...