Despite their ecological and economic importance, the evolutionary relationships of mollusks have been difficult to decipher because of conflicting evidence from the study of fossils, their ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

Honey bee pollination is critical for food production, according to the USDA. Honey bee colonies across the United States are facing record-breaking losses in 2025, with scientists warning the ...

Fossils of Paranthropus robustus are found in abundance at Swartkrans Cave, situated about halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria. Much has been revealed about the diet and social organization ...

A recent discovery has sparked excitement among some experts who believe they may have found the fossil of Noah's Ark ... including molluscs. Experts determined that the materials are dated ...

A Jurassic dinosaur fossil that was first spotted more than 50 years ago has been extracted from the base of a cliff on Skye and formally identified. The fossil was discovered near to Elgol in ...

For more than a century, scientists believed that a fossil of a winged dinosaur from the Jurassic Period discovered 160 years ago in Germany represented the earliest birds. Now, researchers have ...

From left to right: Paleontologist Alex Hastings holds up a fossil of a giant beaver's head on Sunday at Bad Weather Brewing in St. Paul. Paleontologist Alex Hastings held up a fossilized animal ...

While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to an abundance of visible dinosaur footprints, the significance of the fossil remained ...

Humankind’s defining testament will be dramatically different from the skeletons, bones and other biological traces that inform today’s fossil record, according to authors Sarah Gabbott and ...