A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

The history of life on our planet is a long and winding path. Much of what we know about how life has evolved comes from fossils. The physical remains of organisms and the evidence of behaviors, such ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction ... boundary. The fossil record, however, describes sudden, global extinctions that affect many ...

An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers—the first ever record of such a ...

Arjan Mann, a paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History who specializes in Mazon Creek fossils, is studying what he thinks might be a new species of salamander ancestor. This fossil is ...