Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an organism and, over eons, harden into stone, dead beastie impression and all. But ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...

Animal life seemed to explode into a wide variety of new forms in the Cambrian period. Sun et al. (2002). National Science Review. via Wikipedia under CC By 4.0 Sometime before 520 million years ago, ...

Over 100 million years ago, long before the extinction of land-dwelling dinosaurs, there lived a group of massive clams called Inoceramus. With some species having shells up to 6.5 feet wide, they ...

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

The tiny bug needs a rest. Almost any spot will do. Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of ...

An artist's illustration depicts a baby pterosaur struggling against the powerful winds of a storm. - Rudolf Hima A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a ...

An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble ...