The case of a ‘fishy pterosaur’ is the latest example of mistaken identity involving these extraordinary flying reptiles.

Hundreds of rare fossils just out in the open must have been a dream come true for this paleontologist.

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Modern Nautilus and Allonautilus species inhabit deeper waters than their extinct ancestors did over 500 million years ago.

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

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

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...