For decades, a collection of fossil fragments sat forgotten in museum drawers — a paleontological “cold case” waiting for ...

"It's a very difficult fossil to interpret. To look at it, it kind of just looks like a white mush." ...

The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered ...

More than two decades after scientists identified a fossil as the world’s oldest octopus — officials now say it wasn’t one at ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

A strange set of ancient fossils is forcing scientists to rethink one of paleontology’s most stubborn assumptions: that ...

The 90-million-year-old fossil of a tiny bird-like dinosaur has rewritten history, say scientists. They described the discovery of a near complete skeleton of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis as the ...

Rudy Lerosey-Aubril is a paleontologist who likes to relax by cleaning - cleaning fossils. RUDY LEROSEY-AUBRIL: I listen to radio. I listen to podcast and this sort of thing. And it's just a moment, ...

Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...