Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

A small tail vertebra picked up on a windswept Antarctic island in 1985 did not look like much. For decades, it was treated ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

A vertebra discovered by British scientists in 1985 has been identified as the first dinosaur fossil found in Antarctica, ...

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 ...

A set of giant Megalodon vertebrae that vanished for decades has been rediscovered in Denmark, confirming that this ...

Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form. Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

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 unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

For decades, one puzzle stood out among the many mysteries of early animal evolution: the missing origin story of bryozoans.