From the coelacanth to the cockroach, these "living fossil" creatures haven't changed much in millions or even hundreds of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists working in Ethiopia's Afar Region have made discoveries that rewrite our understanding of early human history. For ...

Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

Fossils from Denmark suggest ammonites survived the asteroid extinction far longer than believed, raising new questions about ...

It is popularly believed that around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs ...

HAGERMAN, Idaho — Long before the Snake River lived between farmland and small towns in southern Idaho, the Hagerman Valley was home to saber-toothed cats, mastodons, 100-pound beavers, Hagerman ...

A hiker in Badlands National Park discovered a Leptauchenia fossil, a type of creature that paleontologists describe as “monkey-faced little sheep and llama-like animals.” Unsplash via Zachary ...

Crocodiles and alligators are usually the apex predators in whatever environment they live in. Their massive jaws and armored ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with David Bottjer, Earth Sciences professor with the University of Southern California, about the discovery in China of what's thought to be one of the earliest fossils of a ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...