Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...

A team cracked the case by examining the fossil using a synchrotron, which produces beams of light by accelerating electrons ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

Canadian researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils near Quebec City have identified a new species of basal-medusozoan ...

The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been reclassified after new research published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

The south coast of South Africa's Western Cape province is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces—clues suggesting what ...

Around 110 million years ago, two small pterosaurs about the size of modern seagulls were flying over a lake or river, likely ...

The fossil record offers a unique window into the history of predator–prey interactions, revealing the evolution of predatory strategies and prey defences over geological timescales. Evidence such as ...