An extremely rare fossil of an ancient venomous scorpion was unearthed at China's Jehol Biota and was a key species in the ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...

Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

“This is everything from our brachiopods and crinoids and sharks from the limestones we have here, to plant fossils that we ...