This 30-million-year-long gap is actually rather helpful to Darwin. It means that there was plenty of time for the ancestor ...

Apart from fossils, some animal species also testify to how big their predecessors were before evolution. Although many of ...

The specimens may be an ancient type of algae, not creatures known as bryozoans A species that lived about 520 million years ago and was thought to be the oldest known bryozoan is instead a type of ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

Paleontologists have revealed the fossilized remains of a curious creature that is not only one of Earth's oldest animals, but may even be the first to have ever been mobile. Dubbed Quaestio ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

The oldest-known animal eggs and embryos, whose first pictures made the cover of Nature in 1998, were so small they looked like bugs – which, it now appears, they may have been. This week, a study in ...

Field locations in the Northwest Territories of Canada where fossils that may represent the earliest known animal life sponges that lived roughly 890 million years ago were found in mountainous ...

A forgotten continent may have formed a bridge between Asia and Europe around 40 million years ago. Fossil records show the land once hosted distinct species like marsupials and hippo-like mammals.

A geologist in Canada may have discovered fossils of ancient sponges dating back 890 million years, 350 million years older than the oldest undisputed sponge fossils. The fossilized structures found ...

There’s history hidden beneath your island, just waiting to be dug up. Here’s a checklist of every fossil in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so you can keep track of your paleontological progression.

WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - Fossils found in rugged mountainous terrain in Canada's Northwest Territories may give a glimpse at the humble dawn of animal life on Earth - sea sponges that inhabited ...