Zoologists believe the animal decayed for weeks before it was fossilised 300-million-years ago and this led to the case of ...

Learn how X-ray imaging revealed the first fossilized egg from a mammal ancestor, showing how Lystrosaurus reproduced 250 million years ago.

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the oldest octopus ever discovered, has been re-identified as a different ...

Fossils have been known since antiquity, but for centuries they were poorly understood. During the early modern period, prominent European scholars debated whether fossils had come from living things ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life emerged on ...

Scientists have discovered fossils showing that complex animals existed millions of years before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of life on Earth. The finds reveal a strange, diverse ...

A fossil found in northern Egypt from a new species, Masripithecus moghraensis, is changing long held ideas about ape and human origins.

Researchers have recovered more than 700 fossil specimens.