Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of ...

When we think of the fish that inhabit the deep blue sea today, it’s easy to forget that they haven’t always been there. The ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don't typically preserve well -- except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot ...

This research shows how close examination of even microscopic fossils can reveal large-scale patterns such as ocean ...

Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world's best-preserved fossils ...

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent ...

A famous fossil formation in the Yixian region of Northeast China has revealed some of the most striking, well-preserved dinosaur remains on record. Over the past 60 years, archaeologists excavating ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly preserved body doesn't tell the whole story of how that ...

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