The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

A chance walk along a rocky trail has opened a window into a world that existed long before the first dinosaurs, revealing fossilized tracks from creatures that roamed Earth roughly 280 million years ...

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.

The fossils would later travel all over the world much like the animal did in life, before being stuffed in storage and ...

For a long time, scientists have puzzled over the origins of the human species. It is unclear from which common ancestor modern humans, Neanderthals and Denisovans all descend. According to earlier ...

To find out, I took it to London’s Natural History Museum, where Susannah Maidment, a senior researcher and fossil expert, examined it. “Yeah, it’s a fossil, for sure,” she said. “It’s got a rounded ...