Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...

Ontario researcher thinks 890-million-year-old fossils may be ancient relatives of sponges Fossils that formed 890 million years ago in what is now the Northwest Territories may be by far the oldest ...

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

The fossils were found embedded in limestone columns called stromatalites that were formed by mats of ancient bacteria. ((Adam Maloof/Princeton University)) Fossils of sponge-like animals that lived ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

A fossil that was discovered on Newfoundland could be the oldest complex animal and the earliest evidence of muscular tissue in the world. The fossil, dating from about 560 million years ago, was ...

NEW YORK — Scientists say they’ve confirmed that puzzling fossils from more than 500 million years ago are traces of an animal. That would make it one of the earliest known creatures. The fossils are ...

Two Canadian paleontologists have discovered dozens of fossils of a soft-bodied, deep-sea dweller that lived more than half a billion years ago, adding one more piece to the enigmatic puzzle that is ...

Scientists say they've confirmed that puzzling fossils from more than 500 million years ago are traces of an animal. That would make it one of the earliest known creatures. The fossils are impressions ...

For the first time, scientists have analyzed metabolism-related molecules from the fossilized bones of animals that lived 1.3 ...

Fossils that formed 890 million years ago in what is now the Northwest Territories may be by far the oldest evidence of animal life ever found, a controversial new Canadian study suggests. The tiny ...