The ancient cephalopod, Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, appears to have been an apex predator that rivaled mosasaurs to rule ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than ...

Scottish fossil fish, Megalichthys pygmaeus, reveals new details about the skull and provides clues about species from a coal ...

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas Fossil jaws from colossal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This goblet-shaped fossil from the Jiangchuan Biota in China's Yunnan province is an early species from a group that includes ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil found in Utah is giving scientists a rare look at one of the strangest branches of the animal ...

Researchers have discovered ancient platypus fossils in outback South Australia, where they are believed to have lived with ...

Antarctic fish fossils are shedding light on early animal evolution, specifically the transition to land. A remarkably ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian explosion ...

Washington is full of earthly treasures. Local rockhound experts share their tips for how to find and collect agates, quartz ...