Today’s puzzle is a table of crystals at the Memphis Mineral, Fossil and Gem Show and was taken by Greg Campbell.

Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...

A massive, bus-sized “terror croc” that once preyed on dinosaurs has been brought back to life in stunning detail with the ...

Dr. David Schwimmer, a leading authority on the massive North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a geology professor at Columbus State ...

Discover 25 facts that make us doubt how well we know the world. From owls with eye tubes to sleeping whales, these ...

A 310-million-year-old shark egg case has been discovered in South Yorkshire. The fossil, identified by Dean Lomax and his ...

An international team of researchers has managed to reconstruct the health and sanitation conditions of the inhabitants of ...

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In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records—has turned out to be something else altogether. In what amounts to ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

Researchers argue that a newly examined specimen found decades ago in Utah provides new clues to the ancestors of chelicerates before the group hit it big on land. By Jack Tamisiea Everyone has come ...