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 ...

Wearing a wet suit, goggles and a snorkel, palaeontologist John Moretti conducted the first ever palaeontological study of a Texan ‘water cave’, finding remains of animals thought to have lived more ...

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Pincers found on a tiny fossil that lived 500 million years ago could change how scientists understand the origin of spiders. Rudy Lerosey-Aubril is a paleontologist who likes to relax by cleaning - ...

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 ...

A famous “oldest octopus” fossil has been exposed as a case of mistaken identity. Advanced imaging revealed hidden teeth showing it was actually related to a nautilus, not an octopus. The confusion ...

Unprecedented remnants from the Ice Age have been recovered from a water cave in Comal County. While snorkeling for fossils in Bender’s Cave, which is located on private land, University of Texas ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...

Life reconstruction of the biggest Silurian vertebrate, Megamastax amblyodus. Credit: Image by NICE PaleoVislab, IVPP Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new ...