Initially discovered in 1988, the fossil sat in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils for decades, ... A larger imprint allowed researchers to confirm the species to which it belonged.

Fossil rain suggests the atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago boasted a hydrocarbon haze. Skip to main content. ... What was clearly preserved, however, are the fossil imprints of ancient rain.

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

The 506 million-year-old fossil is an imprint of a creature that had three eyes, a jaw lined with teeth, sharp claws and abdominal segments lined with gills.

The fossil dates back to around 240 million years old, the National Museums of Scotland announced, and includes the animal’s imprint curled up with its long neck wrapped in a circle .

Cracking these concretions reveals the imprints of soft-bodied animals that resemble bulge-eyed aliens. In the 1950s, a local collector named Francis Tully discovered the imprint of a torpedo ...

For decades, 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 ...

A fossil of a tadpole from Argentina is 161 million years old ... “However, after many days of digging, one team member found a stone with a particular imprint on it – a fossil tadpole. ...

The wader, Daniel Holm, is from a Morris, Ill., family that has hunted and sold Mazon Creek fossils for 60 years. Wittry, a self-trained amateur paleontologist, has been at it for just as long ...