Research on Spriggina floundersi fossils found the wormlike creatures favored their right sides, a behavioral preference in ...

Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more ...

For years, the Denisovans occupied an unusual place in the story of human evolution. They were recognised as one of our closest extinct relatives, yet almost nobody knew what they actually looked like ...

A study of fossil teeth from China shows early mammals got bigger before their diets became specialized after the ...

How did spiders get their fangs? Spiders are one of the most successful groups, surviving in pretty much every habitat. One ...

In a groundbreaking discovery in Brunei, scientists have found two-million-year-old fossils of Dryobalanops rappa—an endangered tropical tree that still lives today. The find marks the first fossil ...

Scientists have long posited that the earliest water animals to transition to land had amphibious tadpole features, going ...

Science has spent decades trying to reconstruct Megalodon, the most powerful predator the oceans ever produced. The picture ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Aug 30, 2025, 01:53pm EDT Aug 30, 2025, 02:18pm EDT Dickinsonia ...

Ancient deep-sea organisms suggest movement, sexual reproduction, and complex animal life began earlier than previously thought.

Tooth fossils hint that size came before specialised feeding in early Asian mammals. The story of how mammals rose to ...

A revisit to a pterosaur-abundant fossil site uncovered how two baby pterosaurs met an unusually chilling death 150 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes The Solnhofen Limestone, a fossil hotspot ...