Spriggina floundersi was no bigger than a few centimeters, lived on ancient seafloors in what is now South Australia, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of Tanyka amnicola was discovered at the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It has an unusual twisted jaw with ...

Fossils suggest Spriggina floundersi, an ancient marine organism, displayed population-level right-handedness. This finding ...

Scientists propose that recently uncovered fossils may be the earliest evidence of behavioral “handedness” in animals.

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

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they're still thriving today! Known as "living fossils," these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to ...

More than 500 million years before humans walked the Earth, a catastrophic extinction event wiped out vast numbers of early animal species. Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China ...

Spiders are famous for the business end of their bodies, the sharp mouthparts that seize prey and help explain their ...