Scientists have discovered a vast, fossilized volcanic arc hidden beneath China's Sichuan Basin, dating back 800 million ...

A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

Fossilised log reveals secrets of 120 million-year-old polar forests - The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

Part of a fossilised tree has left two experts stumped after they started to investigate how it came to be in a park in Derby. The stump of a juniper tree in Markeaton Park dates back to the Jurassic ...

For decades, a Romanian woman unknowingly used a rare 3.5-kilogram rumanite amber stone, valued at $1.1 million, as a ...

A 13-million-year-old leg bone from an enormous flightless bird carries crocodilian tooth marks, showing South America was once a predator-eat-predator world ...

The oldest fossilised termites have been found in the northern hemisphere about 150 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic Period. What is exciting is that our trace fossils show they had reached ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger predator may have killed it, scientists say. Terror birds were top ...

A team of international researchers has reignited a centuries-old debate after uncovering new evidence suggesting that the Durupinar Formation in Turkey could be the fossilised remains of Noah’s Ark.