Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

In a cave in Cartagena, Spain, limpet shells and snails were found, collected in the same way modern humans would have done ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in ...

Although Slovakia is now a landlocked country, its territory was partly covered by the sea about 12-13 millions of years ago.

Palaeobiologist Adam Tomašových explains how researchers reconstruct ancient ecosystems from a fossil record shaped by gaps and bias.

For 25 years, a 300-million-year-old fossil from Illinois held an extraordinary distinction: the oldest octopus ever found, ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

Researchers in Canada discovered 567-million-year-old Ediacaran fossils that may contain the earliest evidence of sexual ...

The Canadian fossils belong to the White Sea group. But they appear to be around 567 million years old – 5 to 10 million ...

Scientists have discovered the origins of sexual reproduction trace back to a 567-million-year-old sea creature. Over in ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a huge asteroid famously hit the Earth, causing the extinction of dinosaurs and about half of ...