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 ...

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Two University of Texas at Austin scientists snorkeling through an underwater cave in Comal County stumbled onto something unexpected — the fossilized remains of Ice Age animals that had been hidden ...

WASHINGTON, April 2 (Reuters) - 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 ...

More than 539 million years ago, soft, clarinet-shaped animals anchored themselves to the seafloor on disc-shaped bases, swaying alongside stalked animals resembling worms and baskets. These ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ocean-floor-dwelling animals into bodies we might recognize today—animals ...

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...

Gaorong Li and colleagues have uncovered a new fossil assemblage in the Jiangchuan Biota in Yunnan, Southwest China that fills a critical gap in our knowledge of the transition between the strange, ...

Chelicerates are an ecologically important and successful evolutionary lineage that can trace the origins of each of its constituent groups to between 440 million and 470 million years ago in the ...

Roughly 100,000 years ago, during a relatively balmy period, giant ground sloths, saber-tooth cats, camels, mastodons, giant tortoises and lion-sized armadillo ancestors called a pampathere roamed ...