A pair of fossilized, eel-like fish found just south of Glasgow has provided what scientists are calling the earliest known ...

Fossilized vomit reveals a surprise flying pterosaur in Brazil, offering new insight into how ancient reptiles lived and fed ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar. New analysis of 443-million-year-old fossils from Scotland shows that some ...

A team of scientists from the University of Manchester have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of advanced, camera-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 67-million-year-old fish fossil preserved rare middle ear bones that amplify sound. New analyses suggest otophysan fish evolved ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

An analysis of marine fossils from the Upper Miocene Chagres Formation in Panama, most belonging to the Myctophidae family, discovered four new species, one of which has been named in honor of Brigida ...

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...