Predictions of how marine organisms like mollusks, sea urchins and coccolithophores will continue to form their calcium carbonate components as climate change impacts the oceans rely heavily on the ...

In fossil leaves, puzzling structures are often visible under the microscope. Researchers have now been able to show for the first time that they originate from calcium oxalate crystals. On the one ...

Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South ...

The Dino Dayz of summer are here! Join the Sci-Tech Discovery Center for fun dino-themed activities specimens on the GeO-Deck! Create your own imprint fossil, design a Dino and dig for real fossils.

Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

A fossil of Dickinsonia, an early animal from the Ediacaran period (635-539 million years ago) found in India’s Bhimbetka caves 1 has been revealed to be simply a decayed beehive. The ‘fossil’, ...

There’s just something about dinosaurs. They’re big, mysterious, and long gone—mostly. “Paleontology is a bit like piecing together this puzzle of the past,” says Kristen Olson, senior coordinator of ...

An illustration of Tetrapodophis, a lizard that was named based on a fossil likely smuggled out of Brazil to Germany Julius Csotonyi For a creature about the length of a banana, Tetrapodophis created ...