The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

A team of scientists who study vertebrate fossil tracks and traces on South Africa's southern Cape coast have identified the ...

In a significant palaeobotanical discovery, ptilophyllum fossils — leaf imprints preserved in sedimentary rocks — were ...

A British boy has found Jurassic-era fossils while working in the front garden of his family’s new home in Matlock, ...

A budding palaeontologist has dug up fossils in his garden dating back 140 million years. Elliott, seven, moved into his new ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

The marine predator fossils represent one of the most complete plesiosaur specimens in the Perot Museum of Nature and Science ...

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

The 113-million-year-old fossil of Vulcanidris cratensis is the first known hell ant preserved in rock rather than amber. Anderson Lepeco Brazilian researchers say they’ve discovered the oldest ...

We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the UK more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

Fossils of Tiktaalik roseae blended fins with hints of limbs and sported a flat head suited for peering above the waterline.