A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Fossils of a tiny sea creature that lived 525 million years ago have preserved something paleontologists rarely find: a brain. The specimen, a worm-like animal called Cardiodictyon catenulum recovered ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by an ancient organism. These microscopic, spearhead- or needle-shaped magnetic fragments ...

It is not every day you get to walk through an Ohio park knowing the ground beneath your feet was once part of an ancient sea ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus ...