A fossil found in southwest Germany in 1978 has been deemed to represent a new species of marine reptile known as a ...

The fossil record is filled with strange marine animals that would look like sea monsters if they were alive today. From the ...

The ancient shark species, known as Macadens olsoni, “is notable for its unique tooth whorl, a curved row of teeth designed ...

Fossils are everywhere in Kansas but there are some places where your chances of finding a link to the past are greater than ...

A remarkable discovery in palaeontology has emerged from the re-examination of a fossil originally unearthed over four ...

Canadian researchers have discovered a bizarre flower-like creature which lived in an ancient sea that covered part of Western Canada more than 500 million years ago. The find, published Wednesday ...

“We’re on this ancient sea bed, and there’s a lot of material that we're going through, and we've found some very cool discoveries, and we're going to find a lot more,” said Shideler.

The next time you open wide to bite into a triple-decker sandwich, you'll be able to trace the origin of that ability back 505 million years — to a minnow-sized fish that once lived in a sea in ...

At the Roman settlement of A Cibdá de Armea in northwestern Spain, archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting that ancient ...

We know that fossils are remnants of ancient life, but for people in ancient times, these may have simply been pretty rocks ...

Archaeologists have found stone tools that could have been used by early humans more than one million years ago. The ...