Using state-of-the-art computer simulations of fossils from the Ediacaran time period—approximately 565 million years ago—scientists discovered how these animals mixed the surrounding seawater.

Researchers at Virginia Tech have traced the evolution of life back nearly 2 billion years, revealing slow changes during the 'boring billion' and rapid diversification after the ice ages. This study, ...

He also noted that no other fossils from the Ediacaran geological period have had such definitive organization. Additionally, the animal likely had a motile lifestyle, moving along the ocean floor ...

The late 20th-century find of Dickinsonia fossils offered intriguing insights into the enigmatic Ediacaran biota, a group of organisms predating known animal life. Initially of uncertain ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein ...

The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the trailing edge. A new study suggests that some plesiosaurs, in addition to fishy scales on their flippers ...

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The fossil suggests that modern birds evolved before the dinosaur-killing asteroid, perhaps in Antarctica Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent An illustration of the Vegavis iaai diving for fish ...