Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence ...

Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan ...

Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur trace fossils include footprints, imprints of their skin or feathers, and poo - called coprolites. Do all living things ...

an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now confirmed to ...

MacNeil also showed examples of fossilized plants, including walchia, a type of conifer with needle-like leaves, which is ...

In a significant palaeobotanical discovery, ptilophyllum fossils — leaf imprints preserved in sedimentary rocks — were unearthed on Friday at a newly .

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