For the first time, a fossil-rich discover has been made in the Grand Canyon. Half a billion years ago, the conditions in the ...

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

The fossils at the Mazon Creek site are so abundant and so well-preserved that researchers can reconstruct a detailed ...

Stanford University researchers have discovered virus-like ‘lifeforms’ that exist inside human mouths and guts. Smaller than ...

Discover a vast, previously unknown world of microbial life that survives—and even thrives—for hundreds of millions of years ...

Seven newly discovered stone tools, dating to between 1.04 and 1.48 million years ago, were found on the Indonesian island of ...

When rocks fracture in underground faults, they generate a variety of chemical compounds that could provide more energy ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

Fossils from the Petrified Forest National Park, in northern Arizona, revealed the discovery of a new reptile species that ...

Scientists discovered an entirely new species in northern Arizona, only it’s been extinct for more than 220 million years.

A newly discovered 16-million-year-old fossil of an elusive “dirt ant” preserved in Dominican amber has stunned scientists ...

Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils uncovered in the Grand Canyon show how evolution accelerated in resource-rich waters. An extraordinary cache of remarkably well-preserved ancient animals, ...