Tennessee decided to award a tiny marine creature, which lived in warm, ancient seas millions of years ago, the title of official state fossil.

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

Some of the incredible fossil discoveries of ... represents one of Earth's oldest creatures that haven't evolved, maintaining its distinctive spiral shell design for nearly 500 million years.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

In the quiet cliffs of Stevns, Denmark, a 79-year-old amateur fossil hunter split open a piece of chalk last November and ...

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which tells scientists about an organism's daily life.

These strange creatures, often referred to as "living fossils," have made an extraordinary leap into present-day consciousness while providing a link to the times long past, unchanged since the ...

Wight Coast Fossils photo A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric shark tooth, experts say. It belonged ...