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,...