The cave had been flagged by a local spelunker who simply wanted to know what he'd found. But among the dozens of Ice Age ...

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing ...

Bill Eibner and Brea Wear were on a gravel (sand) bar searching for fossils and artifacts on the Cottonwood River just east ...

Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back more than 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study ...

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 ...

A University of Texas paleontologist has discovered fossils of prehistoric animals in a Central Texas cave that have never been found in the region before.