Around 250 million years ago, what is today scorching desert in remote northwestern Australia was the shore of a shallow bay bordering a vast prehistoric ocean. Fossils recovered from this region over ...

Could a Moroccan cave hold a crucial piece of the puzzle of human origins? Hominin fossils dating back 773,000 years discovered in the country are bringing new evidence to the debate about the last ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

A 21-million-year-old fossil found along Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula has been recovered in what has been described as one of the largest and most complicated excavations in the state's history.

A family was going for a beach walk when they found an ancient whale's fossil.

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

Researchers have rediscovered 250 million-year-old fossils, revealing that ancient, crocodile-like "sea-salamanders" ...

A nearly complete 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil from Patagonia, Alnashetri, reveals how alvarezsaurs evolved and shrank over time.

Rare fossils discovered in southern China reveals that the earliest creatures with spines — ...