A Cambrian fossil has been identified as the oldest known member of the chelicerates, a group that includes spiders and scorpions. The specimen shows the earliest known example of a chelicera, a ...

Jim and I headed out in search of prehistoric marine fossils and quickly stumbled across a strange fossil tooth that neither ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a myriad of marine animals, many of which have now become extinct. This ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

A forgotten continent may have formed a bridge between Asia and Europe around 40 million years ago. Fossil records show the land once hosted distinct species like marsupials and hippo-like mammals.

Strange fossils like nothing alive have baffled botanists for over a century. Now one thinks she’s cracked the case WHEN the greening of the land began around 450 million years ago, the first ...