Some places make it very easy to say yes to a day out, and this museum in Dayton, Ohio, is one of them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Ancient animal history is extremely difficult to reconstruct, for a number of reasons. Some of the earliest creatures in existence were soft-bodied and microscopic, leaving behind very little evidence ...