A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world’s oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it’s not an octopus at all. Newly published research concludes that ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Wisconsin residents voted Tuesday, April 7 in elections for a state Supreme Court seat as well as local races. Among the local races were some higher-profiles ones: Green Bay, Howard-Suamico and West ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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