Anacondas have been among the largest snakes for millions of years, according to fossil evidence from South America. A ...

The Sphinx is one of ancient Egypt's most enigmatic monuments, and now scientists have found that it could be hiding a very unusual secret.

The question of when animals first evolved is one that has confounded scientists since the time of Charles Darwin. Studying ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

What may have looked like a cross between a platypus and a beaverlike rodent and lived around 120 million years ago?

A crocodile fossil pulled from the same ancient limestone that built the Great Sphinx shares a strangely fitting detail with that iconic monument, and the connection runs far deeper than a missing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossils from ancient Australian seas suggest early eukaryotes depended on oxygen and lived mainly on the seafloor. (CREDIT: ...

Learn how scientists are using ancient fossils and machine learning to reconstruct ancient soundscapes. The Jurassic Era ended 145 million years ago. Everything we know about this period has been ...

The behavior resembles that of modern fur seals and marine crocodiles, according to a study published by Cambridge University Press ...

New research reveals Denisovan fossils in southwestern China alongside stone tools and animal bones, offering the first ...

Leo Youngdahl was hoping to find one of his favorite fossils when he turned over a rock at a Nebraska park. Instead, he ...

Las Vegas is known for nightlife, but a nearby desert attraction offers a different daytime outing, with Ice Age history, ...