A “remarkably well-preserved” fossil discovered in Brazil, dating back 113 million years, is now the oldest ant to have ever been found by scientists, a new study has revealed. The ancient ...

The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province, southern China, a region world-renowned for its remarkably preserved snapshots of ...

Human History Mystery Jawbone Pulled From the Sea Is a Rare Fossil From an Elusive Human Relative Ten years ago, fishermen in Taiwan dredged a jawbone from the seafloor.

A William Paterson University professor has filed a lawsuit claiming his irreplaceable collection of 380 million-year-old fossils was lost by college officials and ended up in a landfill.

A 1.4-million-year-old fossil jaw discovered in a South African cave in 1949 has now been identified as that of a previously unknown human relative species dubbed the “nutcracker man”.

Paleontologists unearthed fossils of a dog-sized, saber-toothed gorgonopsian in Mallorca, Spain, believed to be the earliest known mammalian relative. Dating back roughly 270 million years, this ...

A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool's gold. The new species, which is distantly related to arachnids such as scorpions and ...

During recent construction work at a Los Angeles high school, millions of fossils were unearthed, many of which were marine life-like fish and sea turtles.

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a "living fossil." A new discovery reveals that it evolved faster when plate ...

A tiny human relative called the hobbit, or Homo floresiensis, may have evolved from a larger ancestor that shrunk upon arriving on the Indonesian island of Flores, a new fossil suggests ...