A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this ...
Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.
Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing that the way these fossils were preserved is far from what scientists ...
A small tail vertebra picked up on a windswept Antarctic island in 1985 did not look like much. For decades, it was treated ...
Recently, paleontologists Dr. John-Paul Zonneveld, Dr. Sarah Naone, and Dr. Brooks Britt described the discovery and classification of four new ichnotaxa (fossilized trace taxa) from the Eocene ...
A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...
When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...
A vertebra discovered by British scientists in 1985 has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica, ...
Fossil fragments suggest the Praearcturus gigas scorpion had a body about one metre long.
Entire groups of organisms – and possibly even ecosystems – may still await discovery within museum drawers or poorly studied ...