A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

They had “very large claws on their forelimbs” and were “covered in thick hair,” the Illinois State Museum said.

Divers discover 500,000-year-old fossils in a Florida sinkhole on the Steinhatchee River, revealing the existence of ancient ...

Researchers found strikingly similar winding networks in rocks much younger than the Little Dal reef in several locations. They suggested the branching mesh formations could be the fossil remains ...

A prehistoric human skull and fossils found in the sea could reveal the secrets of an ancient lost land teeming with venomous ...

The skull of an ancient human ancestor was discovered by scientists along with 6,000 animal fossils of 36 species including ...

Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse ...

New clues about our earliest ancestors suggest they may have reached Eurasia sooner than scientists once thought. Fossils ...