South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils discovered at Germany’s Posidonia Shale is not the result of pyrite (aka fool’s gold ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Learn how newly discovered vertebrae from a 6- to 8-meter shark pushes the origin of mega-predators back by 15 million years.

Scientists have reconstructed the most complete and lifelike profile of Edmontosaurus annectens thanks to an extraordinary ...

It resembles a speck of mud on a wafer of black shale, something you might be tempted to scrape off with your fingernail. But the latest discovery by UNLV researchers is no small thing. When viewed ...

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 ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

A new study is challenging accepted ideas about how ancient soft-bodied organisms become part of the fossil record. Findings suggest that bacteria involved in the decay of those organisms play an ...

Fossils can be found all across the Earth. The fossilized bones and shells of ancient organisms has helped us understand the evolution and history of life on Earth. While fossils are relatively common ...