How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Scientists uncover a ‘lost world’ inside a New Zealand cave, revealing fossils of extinct birds and frogs from 1 million years ago. The discovery offers rare insight into ancient ecosystems.

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

D inosaurs once roamed in Utah ’s Dinosaur National Monument Park. The evidence is embedded in the rocks, but some enormous – ...

The image of kangaroos hopping their way across the Australian outback is iconic – and it turns out it might have been an ...