In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other ...

The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life. They’re also underground, ancient archives of the past. In Comal County just ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Researchers found a long-lost ice age ecosystem in Bender's Cave, Texas ...

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes.

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Solari Capital Founder and Managing Partner AJ Scaramucci sits with Yahoo Finance executive editor Brian Sozzi to discuss how ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

They found remains of animals that have never been uncovered in Central Texas. The fossils hint that the region was warm, ...

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...