Recent fossil finds in Africa are revealing a more intricate picture of human evolution than the straight-line model many imagine. From unique walking adaptations to overlapping species and ...

Thousands of years ago in a cave on Hispaniola, an unusual chain of events left behind a rare scientific treasure: bees nesting inside fossilized bones. After giant barn owls repeatedly brought prey ...

Analysis of a 7.2-million-year-old thigh bone recovered from the Azmaka fossil deposit in Bulgaria suggests that the capacity to walk upright on two ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in western Hungary is reshaping what scientists thought they knew about one of the ocean’s most intriguing prehistoric creatures. Newly analysed remains found near the ...

Wearing a wet suit, goggles and a snorkel, palaeontologist John Moretti conducted the first ever palaeontological study of a Texan ‘water cave’, finding remains of animals thought to have lived more ...

An artistic rendering shows the mysterious animal, which researchers now say was a nautilus relative, in its prehistoric environment. University of Reading For more than a decade, an imposter may have ...

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In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records—has turned out to be something else altogether. In what amounts to ...

An illustration of the fossils' environment around 539 million to 554 million years ago Xiaodong Wang Life on Earth started sometime before 3.5 billion years ago, although it was clearly in no rush to ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...