Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to ...

On this World Anatomy Day, Oct. 15, experts in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins Medicine are ...

An international team of scientists led by the Doñana Biological Station (EBD-CSIC) has described a new species of fossilized ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first ...

The dinosaur’s bones are being held at the National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco. There are no plans to put the ...

Imagine digging in your garden and coming across something unexpected: a fossil! Here's what you should do to identify it and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A recent study has shown the behaviors of ancient species that once roamed the area that is now known as Oregon. In February, scientific journal Palaeontologia Electronica ...

Paleontologists say a newly discovered species from Argentina's high-altitude Andes provides an evolutionary hint to how ...

The deposit contains more than 50 unknown species from the Cambrian Explosion. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A new trove of outstandingly preserved fossils in China from the ...