Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

Until now, the earliest known instance of human interest in ichthyosaurs was in 1699, but a peculiar discovery pushes that ...

"It was very striking." ...

According to fossils preserved by volcanic ash, the plants, known as angiosperms, began producing relatively large, blueberry ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our closest extinct relatives, yet almost nobody knew what they actually looked like ...

Around 1,800 years ago, a fossilized spinal bone lay on the windswept beaches of Roman Britain until a curious passerby ...

Researchers have wondered whether Praearcturus gigas was a giant crustacean called an isopod or some other creature. A new ...

Mongolia contains some of the most well preserved and diverse fossils in the world, but they attract more than paleontologists. Black market smugglers routinely rob both the East Asian country of its ...