A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

Learn more about the hidden molecules uncovered in animal fossils from an ancient human site, and the new view they give us ...

This fossil discovery brought back memories from my childhood. Finding creatures that once lived in ancient oceans reminded ...

The discovery of a new dicynodont species suggests early land animals moved across Pangaea later and more widely than ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

In western India, strata of old rocks are providing a glimpse of what may have been a world of heat, a world of creeping ...

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

In a Caribbean cave, researchers discovered hundreds of fossils with bee nests within them. It is the first time this behavior has been recorded, a new study finds.