For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

Since Jurassic Park arrived in theaters in 1993, audiences have been fascinated by the idea of seeing dinosaurs on the big ...

An amateur fossil hunter who found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile said she thought it was a piece ...

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

Researchers have provided new insights into the evolutionary origin of sideways walking in crabs. Their study, published ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...

The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet’s surface, yet we’ve explored less than 5% of it. Below the sunlit waves lies an alien world of crushing pressure, eternal darkness, and bone-chilling cold ...

The ‘sea unicorn’ is an evolutionary anomaly. What few know is that the narwhal’s iconic ‘horn’ is actually a tooth, shaped ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil that earned a Guiness World Record in 2015 as the world’s oldest octopus, has now been ...