Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...

It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Researchers have found through examinations that the now-extinct species roamed the Earth 480 million years ago. The new set of fossils were discovered in Morocco’s portion of the desert on a ...

A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

“But here we have an animal, most likely some kind of fish, that 66 million years ago ate lilies that lived on the seabed of the Cretaceous Sea and then vomited up the skeletal parts.