How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers understand life on other planets.

Edmontosaurus annectens, a large herbivore duck-billed dinosaur that lived toward the end of the Cretaceous period, was ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Fossils of Sahelanthropus tchadensis from Chad show that early hominids were walking on two legs 7 million years ago, 1.5 million years earlier than previously believed. The femur and arm bones reveal ...

Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at ...

Picking through a dozen vulture nests, scientists discovered hundreds of artifacts, including a sandal that could be more ...