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

A spider with every hair intact. A fish eye still holding its colour. None of it should have survived.

Dryopithecus is one of the most mysterious extinct ape genera ever found in Europe, known from fossils discovered in France, Spain, and Austria. Long debated by researchers, it has at times been ...

A new discovery in Australia reveals fossils preserved in iron with astonishing detail, reshaping how scientists search for ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...

Researchers identified inconsistencies between earlier fossil evidence and molecular phylogenetic timelines, prompting a ...

Weasels are small carnivores with a long body and short legs. They also have a stout skull and sharp teeth. These creatures, ...

A rodent found in Laos has been determined to belong to a group thought to have gone extinct in the fossil records about 11 ...

Researchers have applied a temperature proxy to exceptionally well-preserved fossil phytoplankton for the first time. The ...

Mark Clementz, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Geology and Geophysics, and colleagues have produced a ...

Tectonic plate movements over millions of years have lifted and tilted the layers, with records of ancient earthquakes in the rocks ...

In this remote Washington state park, visitors can walk among ancient stone trees and discover a landscape unlike anywhere ...