The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Nestled in the Linxia Basin, Hezheng County lies at the boundary of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau. The region boasts a continuous sedimentary stratum formed no later than 30 million ...

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.

A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

A Rotadiscus grandis fossil (left) and an interpretive drawing (right). Credit: Li et al Exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have helped fill a gap in our understanding of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over ...

The fossils, uncovered in Staffordshire’s White Peak region, belonged to goniatites — extinct relatives of modern squid and ...

James Martin and the other eight members of his expedition to Antarctica are no strangers to hardship. They have camped out in freezing temperatures, endured week-long wind storms, and hiked across ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...

The fossil leech compared with a modern leech. Double arrows indicate the large caudal sucker used for attachment, single arrows indicate body annulations. A newly described fossil reveals that ...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has made the behind-the-scenes inventory of rare fossils and other ancient artifacts ...