Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Scientists discovered a 400-million-year-old fossil known as Prototaxites, which does not belong to any known life form ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

The prehistoric facial bones were found buried in 50 feet of mud and silt, and are believed to be 1.1 to 1.4 million years ...

Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because of a sheath preserved on one ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...

The mineralized bones are the earliest human fossil remains found so far in Western Europe. However, it wasn’t immediately ...

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe.