A new study describing a microscopic, algalike fossil dating back more than 1.6 billion years supports the idea that one of the hallmarks of the complex life we see around us—multicellularity— is much older than previously thought.

Oldest skin fossil, dating back 21 million years, found in Oklahoma

New evidence demonstrates beyond doubt that the largest primate to walk the earth went extinct between 295,000 and 215,000 years ago

Giant predator worms (fossils of a new group of animal) more than half a billion years old were discovered in North Greenland

New Research Shows Nanotyrannus Is Separate Species, Not “Juvenile T. rex”

An early Miocene (Aquitanian) mangrove fossil forest buried by a volcanic lahar at Barro Colorado Island, Panama - ScienceDirect

The Curiosity of the Young

Researchers discovered a 3.5 million-year-old megalodon tooth fossil found in deep sea

Scientists Are Reincarnating the Woolly Mammoth to Return in 4 Years

Hominins Hunted Beavers At Least 400,000 Years Ago, Ancient Bones Reveal