"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen ...

The fossil remains of a bird that lived approximately 120 million years ago have ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically shifts the timeline of leech evolution by more than 200 million years.

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, defied conventions by combining two different mineral-building methods.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microfossils of a globular spore connected to a T-shaped filament excavated in an Arctic region of northwestern Canada represent the oldest-known fungus, a discovery that sheds ...

The mystery surrounding dozens of small dinosaur fossils has finally been solved. Remains previously thought to belong to ...

The fossil is estimated to be about 100 million years old. — -- The skeleton of a 100 million-year-old fish "with an incredibly swordfish-like head and monstrous teeth" has been unearthed in the ...