A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

The largest octopus alive today, in comparison, is the giant Pacific octopus. Per National Geographic, it tends to reach up ...

A strange set of ancient fossils is forcing scientists to rethink one of paleontology’s most stubborn assumptions: that ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils that puzzled scientists for over 20 years have finally revealed their true identity. Rather than ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Sometimes it’s difficult to avoid feeling a ...

At first, it just looks like another rough fossil oyster pulled from an ancient riverbank. Then the saw goes through it, and ...

La Brea Tar Pits scientists have identified a previously unknown juniper species as Juniperus scopulorum, commonly known as the Rocky Mountain Juniper. The successful identification, along with the ...

A new examination of teeth from 11 Neanderthal and early human fossils shows that modern humans are slower than our ancestors to reach full maturity (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ...

Fossil horn corals. The corals are about 450 million years old and represent a group of marine organisms commonly found in the fossil record. The specimen is part of the collection of the UW-Madison ...

Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...