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

When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...

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

When geology professor Jason. W. Ricketts set out to study rock formations in West Texas, he didn't expect to come back with a dinosaur. The University of Texas at El Paso researcher was conducting ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a highly unusual detail: its internal organs are preserved. The findings were published in Nature, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

On January 24, 54 precious fossils from the Hezheng Paleontological Fossil Museum in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, went on display at the Shenzhen Art Museum in Shenzhen, Guangdong ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

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 ...