An extremely rare fossil of an ancient venomous scorpion was unearthed at China's Jehol Biota and was a key species in the ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is ...

A team of scientists led by The University of Western Australia has discovered two new species of trapdoor spiders in the ...

In the depths of the ocean, near the South Sandwich Islands, a remarkable marine creature has been filmed. This is not an ...

An international team of paleontologists and Earth scientists has identified fossilized remains as a two-clawed therizinosaur ...

Early human migration timeline into South America has stirred debate. Researchers have long argued about when these first ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Scientists have discovered a “thriving ecosystem” of strange deep-sea ­creatures on a newly exposed sea floor after an iceberg broke off near the Antarctic. The area, which had never before ...

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert ... “But this one is unique in having only two fingers on each of its giant arms, so they really do look like oversized tongs ...

The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have found only about 1 million species, that means more than 4.5 million species ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...