Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals ...

rex, our famous fossil with a big personality ... Begin your journey through time and explore each period of our evolution, including the Precambrian era that makes up 90 percent of the planet’s ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

Fossil tracks from Australia reveal reptiles appeared 40 million years earlier than thought. The origin of reptiles on Earth may be up to 40 million years earlier than previously believed, based on ...

Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in one of the most fossil-rich areas of the world.

Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young.

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone recovered near Melbourne.