Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

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

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.

Such discoveries are said to provide important insight into which creatures were eaten by whom. Peter Dennicke, a local fossil hunter, was walking around Stevens Clint when he came across a ...

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 ...

These included brachiopods, which lived in shells resembling those ... a wormlike creature that swam in middle Cambrian seas. Fossils found in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia show traces ...

A 520-million-year-old fossil resembling a flower is the great ancestor of modern-day comb jellies, jellyfish-like sea creatures that cast a rainbow-like effect as they propel their way through ocean ...