A well-preserved crab-like fossil that was found by scientists from Curtin University, Australia, has provided evidence of a toxic ocean environment in...
According to an international team of paleontologists, a Cambrian fossil arthropod found in China is the earliest known fossil to show a brain.
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Paleontologists have discovered an extraordinarily rare fossil of a spider attacking a wasp caught in its web.
This is the only fossil ever discovered...
An amateur paleontologist has discovered the world’s smallest known fossil vertebrate footprints at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a 689 ha paleontological...
According to an international team of paleontologists, a 9.7-meter-long mortichnia of a horseshoe crab unearthed at a famous fossil locality in Germany...
A survey of the extensive fruit and seed collections from the Middle Eocene of the Messel fossil site in Germany has revealed 140 genera, representing...
Re-analysis of the braincase of Acanthodes bronni has revealed that this 290-million-year-old fossil fish resembled a shark.
The fossilized braincase...
British researchers have reconstructed for the first time how a famous extinct animal – the early tetrapod called Ichthyostega – moved on land.
Reconstruction...
British scientists have developed a harmless, straightforward and inexpensive technique for removing gold from fossils.
Image shows a 300 million year...
An amateur paleontologist has discovered a fossil of a very mysterious organism dubbed Godzillus that lived in shallow seas in what is now the Cincinnati...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a tropical forest preserved in ash when a volcano erupted 300 million years ago in what is today...
The oldest fossil evidence for early life has been discovered in micrometre-sized pyrite crystals from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia,...
