Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

Usually, real-world paleontology is a lot less wiggly; the nature of a fossil is generally set in stone (puns!). Sometimes, a particular fossi.

An 'alien plant' fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The plant fossil is among those found at silcrete sites in Australia. This star-shaped fruit, seen in cross section, is currently being studied and is likely to represent a species new to science.

Carnivorous Plant Fossil Rare fossils of a carnivorous plant have been found preserved in a piece of Baltic amber. The find has shed light on the origins of a plant that traps its food using ...

Field Museum. (2023, December 7). It turns out, this fossil 'plant' is really a fossil baby turtle. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 12 ...

(CNN) — Ancient plant fossils that puzzled scientists have turned out not to be plants after all, new research has revealed. Instead, the small round shapes bearing a leaflike pattern were once ...

Huertas collected fossils and rocks at the site, near the town of Villa de Leyva, from the 1950s to the 1970s. When he found the leaf-patterned rocks, he deemed them a fossil plant.