A fossil enthusiast recently discovered a fossilized tooth dating back 270 million years from a petalodont (petal-toothed) ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

A routine clam survey took an unexpected turn off the Virginia coast when a mysterious bone with big black teeth was pulled from a depth of 177 feet, NOAA Fisheries reports. The “once-in-a-lifetime” ...

She said the Heleocola fossil — a piece of jawbone and three molar teeth — was discovered in the lab, in a slab of sandstone ...

Analyses of the remains showed that Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki belongs to the group of toothed whales but differs ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...

The fossil exposes remarkable features of the ancient sea dragon ... Inside the belly of this sea monster, scientists have ...

Opalised ornithpod teeth fossils found near Lightning Ridge.(Supplied: Bob Smith) "Two natural phenomena that are stupidly unlikely — the formation of a fossil and the formation of opal ...

A Colombian rancher has discovered a fossilized bone that points to the existence of a giant terror bird species. The fossil, ...

Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...

While past terror bird fossils placed the meat-eating birds at 3 to 9 feet tall, new findings suggest that some were even ...