Paleontologists have long studied the fossilized remains of animals from the Cambrian period, a time when many major groups ...

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

Scientists are debating the Earth's first creature, with evidence pointing to simple, sponge-like organisms emerging around ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Ever since the very first dinosaur was discovered by humans and named in the early 1800s, humans have been obsessed. Thankfully, there are countless destinations around the world where dinosaur ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...