Scientists have uncovered the earliest fossil evidence of annelids (ringed worms) in Cambrian microfossils dating back ...

An amateur fossil hunter has found a rare fragment from the world's oldest marine crocodile during a guided walk along the ...

Missouri is home to thousands of caves, but this one in the Ozarks stands out among the rest. It dates back to the Ice Age ...

A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found ...

The Thalattosuchian's jawbone was a chance find on a guided fossil walk run by a museum.

A fossil once believed to show the world’s oldest imprint of an octopus – some 300 million years old – is actually another ...

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

“It turns out the world’s most famous octopus fossil was never an octopus at all,” Clements says in a statement. “It was a ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

An international research team led by Chinese scientists has discovered the oldest known body fossils of annelids, extending ...

Korn, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons For years, a 300-million-year-old fossil in Chicago was celebrated as the world’s oldest ...