A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has opened a new window into one of the most fascinating chapters in Earth’s ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

A fossil skull from a long-extinct animal captivated the public when it went on display at the South Australian Museum.

The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world’s strangest dinosaurs is even more bizarre than first realised. New fossils found in ...

Istiorachis macarthurae, dated to about 125 million years ago, sat in a museum for years before being rediscovered.

Two tiny pterosaurs, preserved for 150 million years, have revealed a surprising cause of death: violent storms. Researchers at the University of Leicester discovered both hatchlings, nicknamed Lucky ...

The Grand Canyon is one of the most remarkable landforms in America, attracting millions of tourists each year. The geological marvel reveals the power of erosion over long periods of time. It is also ...

They are like fossils of an alien species, artifacts of a civilization that died mid-sentence amid some volcanic catastrophe.

It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...