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

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

Fossils are formed when an animal or plant dies and is preserved under layers of sediment. Over millions of years, the ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

What started as routine fossil cleaning turned into a major scientific surprise when researchers uncovered a tiny claw in a ...

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...

A University of Iowa-led research team looks forward to paleontologists paying more attention to lesser researched species, ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on ...

Scientists reveal how microbes preserved a 183-million-year-old ichthyosaur as a stunning three-dimensional fossil now ...

Learn how a fossil from Utah’s Wheeler Formation reveals where early spider relatives lived, how quickly complex animal body ...

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 ...

So, it’s the Skoda Source of Life in the Kenyan Cradle of Humankind. Classic Top Gear logic. Although having landed at our ...