Rare fossils found along the Colorado River 'give us a fuller picture of what life was like during the Cambrian period,' says ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly evidence of life, or just odd rock formations? Now, scientists have ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true bug history.

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Ocean Grove beachgoers have discovered an ancient whale fossil in rock pools, with experts confirming the bones are 20 ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. In a study appearing today in ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

A 2.5-billion-year-old rock from South Africa's Gamohaan Formation. AI analysis suggests the dark structures preserved in the rock are the remains of a complex microbial community. Pairing ...

"We CT scanned this new fossil so we could compare it to these other birds with gizzards." The CT scan data indicated that whatever the mass of rocks in the little bird's throat were, they were not ...

The first animals to inhabit the Earth may have been sea sponges, a new study by geochemists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has suggested. In their work, the researchers linked ...