Scientists have discovered fossils of two newfound primate species, dating back to 25 million years ago. One fossil belongs to the group that contains great apes (hominids), while the other is from the group that includes Old World monkeys. The discovery may mark the moment when our primate ancestors first diverged…

Scientists in Wales are claiming that they may have found fossilized microbes in meteorites that crashed to the ground a few years ago in Sri Lanka. The meteorites have a geological composition characteristic of comets, but when the researchers cracked them open they found something unexpected.

About half a billion years ago during the Cambrian period, in the early years of multicellular life on Earth, there existed a creature out of our nightmares. A scaly arthropod, distantly related to today's lobsters and spiders, Fuxianhuia crawled along the ocean floor with those insane-looking tentacle legs. Those…

The Umbaran starfighters from Star Wars: The Clone Wars have an unusual shape — even for a ship in the Star Wars universe. And that shape reminded some paleontologists of something: It looks very similar to the cervical vertebra from an apatosaurus, as they wrote in the blog Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week.

It's pretty hard to find a fossil of something that's completely squishy and tiny. Without bones or exoskeletons, there's not a lot from many microorganisms that gets preserved. But a 200-million year old cocoon has shown us a glimpse at an ancient microorganism that looks incredibly similar to some modern examples.

Dinosaur names often have a majestic ring to them: King of the Tyrant Lizards, Swift Seizer, Colossal Iguana. The very first scientific dinosaur name was assigned to a one-ton carnivore that likely ran about on two legs like Tyrannosaurus Rex. And what was the first bone of this great beast named after? Balls.

We can all blame Jurassic Park for getting our hopes up that we could bring the dinosaurs using amber-preserved DNA. It turns out DNA won't last nearly long enough for that, but it does hang around longer than we previously knew.

An international team of scientists working in Italy have found the oldest samples of arthropods preserved in amber — a finding that is 100 million years older than previous fossilized samples. The insects, a fly and two mites, are the first ever to be discovered from the Triassic era. The group's findings will help…

There's a whole period in the evolution of modern insects that's pretty much a blank, thanks to a gaping hole in the fossil records. The so called Hexapoda Gap runs from 385 million years ago to 325 million years ago. It's right around when the insect world changed from the old, wingless insects to the incredible…

A disturbing bit of news has bubbled up in Central Florida, where an 80,000-year-old mastodon skeleton has gone missing from the shed where it had been stored for over 20 years. CFNews13.com reports: