From our modern perspective, dinosaurs are pretty crazy and unique. They are often massive and generally look almost nothing like the animals we see today. When archeologists look closer at some of ...

Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

Here is something a little different from our usual fossil hunts. PaleoCris and I set out to search for ancient sea grass ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see the world using four camera-type eyes, reshaping our understanding of how ...

Early humans named Homo erectus reached East Asia 600,000 years earlier than thought, reshaping the timeline of hominin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bruce Runnegar with the fossil he found while visiting a quarry with school friends in 1958. In 1958, an Australian teenager named ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old.... What a fossil mystery tells us about parasites today ...

Artist’s reconstruction of the oldest known vertebrate's four eyes. (Xiangtong Lei & Sihang Zhang via SWNS) By Dean Murray Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably ...