A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

The Little Dal reef is mostly "just a streaky set of laminated things ... that were previously identified as evidence of ancient sponges extracted from 635-million-year-old sediments in Oman.

They've extracted fragments of enamel proteins from the teeth of fossils of the species Paranthropus robustus and used them ...

By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived in southern Africa ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

Researchers estimate that MoM z14 was created 280 million years after the Big Bang, 10 million years earlier than the ...

A 14.6-million-year-old fossilized Leioproctus bee has been discovered, calling into question current theories about ...

Palaeontologists have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from the Burgess ... collectively known as arthropods. "Radiodonts were the first group of arthropods to branch ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

Paleontologists at the Manitoba Museum and Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have discovered a remarkable new 506-million-year-old predator from ... "Radiodonts were the first group of arthropods to ...

Paleontologists have discovered a three ... for prey more than 500 million years ago. The fossilized remains of one Mosura fentoni — nicknamed the "sea moth" — were found in the Burgess ...