More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

The world's oldest octopus fossil is no longer an octopus. A new study by researchers says the 300-million-year-old creature ...

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 ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth’s primordial seas millions of years earlier than previously known, with an array of forms including ...

For years, this fossil seemed to tell a thrilling story. Here was an animal from more than 300 million years ago that ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

Unusually well-preserved fossils have provided the earliest known evidence of a land vertebrate that could pump air in and ...

Researchers working on fossils from Brazil found a new kind of tetrapod fossil from 275-million years ago called Tanyka amnicola. This creature is believed to be a living fossil for its time because ...

Researchers hope they have found a way for a fascinating living fossil to once again breed in the Brisbane River, but hunger ...