A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

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A new study using advanced fossil imaging reveals that ancient pterosaurs may have mastered flight almost instantly when they ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. But the oldest DNA obtained so far dates back ...

A foot fossil found in Ethiopia belonged to an ancient human. The finding could knock one of the most famous names in human evolution from her spot on the family tree.

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

80-million-year-old fossils revealed that this dyrosaurid species began to diversify millions of years earlier than ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.