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 ...

A peculiar 37-million-year-old snake fossil, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, unearthed in England, is rewriting evolutionary ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar.

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...