Learn how a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil from Québec is helping scientists rethink the Furongian gap and the hidden diversity of late Cambrian life.

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

Ready for a “root” awakening? Towering fossilized tree trunks entombed upright in layers of rock across the US are stirring ...

New research published in BMC Biology helps to fill in questions about the so-called "Furongian gap" from about 497 million to 485 million years ago, when paleontologists previously thought there were ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record is formed. They investigated how dinosaur and mammal bones are ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

Scientists still aren’t sure what exactly prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils tell us about life before the Cambrian Explosion, but at least they now understand why we have a remarkable fossil record ...

Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form. Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...

A river hunt for ancient sea fossils takes a strange turn when the group starts finding unusual lightweight rocks that don’t behave like normal stone. Some show early signs of crystal formation—almost ...