The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

For more than a century, the Ediacara Biota has quietly confused scientists. These fossils, dating back around 570 million ...

By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

Join paleontologist Harrison Duran in "Unearthing Giants: The Hunt for a Complete Triceratops." Watch as he embarks on an exhilarating journey to uncover a fossilized Triceratops pubis bone and solve ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived 570 million years ago. The study sheds light on early life, fossil process ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

Meet Tyrannoroter heberti, the earliest known terrestrial vertebrate that evolved to eat plants. Described from a fossil that dates back 307 million years, it's become the first of its group to have ...

Scientists have captured remarkable footage of the young of a mouse-sized marsupial, called a fat-tailed dunnart, making their way to their mother’s pouch soon after being born ...

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at ...