The unearthing of a 350 million-year-old tree fossil has opened the door to plants of the past. Five of these fossils were ...

Trilobites are iconic marine arthropods from the Paleozoic era. Before the age of dinosaurs ... leaving behind thousands and ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have ...

The Devonian, part of the Paleozoic era, is otherwise known as the Age of ... that lacked jaws developed a range of bizarre forms. Fossil specimens include species with horseshoe-shaped heads ...

The largest extinction events define a change in era. The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 ... We suggest using a threefold approach to connect with the investigations in the ...

Lake Champlain's Isle La Motte is rich in marine fossils, some of which are 450 million years old. Robert Lyons Nelson Fisk, who was Vermont's lieutenant governor from 1896 to 1898, was also the ...

Marrellomorphs are one of the rarest arthropod groups in the world. The discovery of a new fossil sheds light on this enigmatic creature.