A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records—has turned out to be something else altogether. In what amounts to ...

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 ...

Country legend Ray Stevens is recovering after breaking his next last week. The 87-year-old comedic singer and songwriter injured himself after a fall in Tennessee. Stevens' publicist tells Taste of ...

A former active-duty Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 2011 for heroism in Afghanistan is ready to shoulder a new challenge as a 37-year-old reservist: reconnaissance work. Sgt. Dakota ...

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.

The details of how animal life began are a bit murky. Most of the groups familiar today are present in the Cambrian, a period when they rapidly diversified, with familiar features evolving alongside ...

Reconstruction of Jiangchuan biota (~554-539 million years ago). Credit: Xiaodong Wang. A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China has transformed our understanding of how complex animal life ...

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 ...

Two researchers snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing new details about what lived in this ancient ecosystem. When you purchase ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 30, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Front page flashback: March 31, 1981 ...

An 18-million-year-old jawbone discovered in Egypt challenges the long-held view that East Africa was the cradle of our modern ape ancestors. Illustration of Masripithecus moghraensis, the first ape ...