For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world.

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any animal to get preserved with exceptional detail in sandstones, which are ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up for well over a century, but every so often something turns up inside them that throws everyone a bit. You expect bones, maybe teeth, maybe the odd imprint. In other ...