The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Worst polluters hold world’s future in their hands as they benefit from higher fossil fuel prices, but global trends favour renewables Oil stands at about $110 a barrel and some forecasts have ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a 500-million-year-old specimen where no claw should exist. That detail ...

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...

Chelicerates are an ecologically important and successful evolutionary lineage that can trace the origins of each of its constituent groups to between 440 million and 470 million years ago in the ...

A 25-year-old man drowned after witnesses said he swam underneath a waterfall at the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls in Gila County earlier this week, officials said. Authorities responded to the ...

COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST, AZ — A 25-year-old man who jumped from the Fossil Creek Lower Waterfalls into the water below has died. Multiple search and rescue teams responded to the area just before ...

PHOENIX — It's going to be another hot day for March, but fortunately, there is an end in sight to the heat, and maybe some rain chances? We're staying on top of the latest happenings from across the ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth. Long extinct, this predatory fish ...