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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments ...

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 ...

In a forbidding Wyoming desert, scientists and fortune hunters search for the surprisingly intact remains of horses and other ...

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