More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner tissues, ...

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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 ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

Scientists have dug up a paleontological "Pompeii," one preserving not an unprecedented snapshot of Roman life but of the bizarre world of 512 million years ago. The site has revealed entirely unknown ...

On Friday, paleontologists and crews removed dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site in Dinosaur National ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

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