This is the first large discovery of insect-laden amber in South America, and it gives great insights into Cretaceous life in ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of Palaeophis colossaeus, a 12-meter-long ancient sea snake that once ruled prehistoric oceans and may have devoured sharks.