fossils

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How …

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a …

Australia is home to a unique bunch of native land mammals, such as koalas, wombats, and wallabies. These …

Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds — the largest birds ever to have lived — have captured the public’s interest …

A “graveyard” of fossilized shark teeth was recently discovered by Australian scientists 3.1 miles (4-5 km) deep in …

Scientists are constantly studying plants hoping to grow one with unique traits such as drought resistance. But some …

Researchers from the University of Florida have pulled almost 100 fossils from a flooded cave in the Bahamas, …

Have you ever wanted to go to the Kenyan desert and go on a hunt for fossils? Now, …

Three fossils found in a lignite mine in southeastern Yunan Province, China, that are about 6.4 million years …

A 13-million-year-old fossil unearthed in northern India comes from a newly discovered ape, the earliest known ancestor of …