A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

China-Brazil study of rare fossilised reptile stomach reveals first evidence that ancient winged creatures enjoyed munching ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known fossilized animal sperm, found preserved in a 50-million-year-old cocoon from ...

The proteins in the rhino fossil are intact in the high Arctic's dry, cold environment, and the hardiness of tooth enamel.

Scientists from the University of York have extracted ancient proteins from a 21–24 million-year-old fossilised rhino tooth ...

Scientists analysing a fossilised rib bone believe it belonged to a Denisovan, the mysterious ancient cousin of Homo sapiens. Advertisement. Trending in China. People & Culture.

The oldest fossilised termites have been found in the northern hemisphere about 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period. What is exciting is that our trace fossils show they had reached ...