Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

A fossil once believed to show the world’s oldest imprint of an octopus – some 300 million years old – is actually another ...

Those who venture into Foul Air Cave, below Buchan township in eastern Victoria, quickly realize how it got its ominous name.

Scientists uncover the truth behind a well-known fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, showing the "world's oldest octopus" was not ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...

Researchers working on fossils from Brazil found a new kind of tetrapod fossil from 275-million years ago called Tanyka ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...