Chemical clues preserved in tiny shells reveal that ocean acidification doomed a group of planktonic organisms that have ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

Fossil wings from insects that lived about 165 million years ago have allowed scientists to reconstruct part of the Middle ...

In productive marine environments, a square meter (10.8 square feet) of seafloor can be perforated by hundreds to thousands ...

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

They spend the day digging through ancient South Carolina layers packed with shark teeth, bone, and marine fossils. There are ...

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that some of the most surprising of them might be wind turbine blades. University ...

Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits.

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

The authors of “A History of Life in 100 Fossils” write about the secrets of the animal kingdom Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Fossils can illustrate evolutionary themes: speciation, evolutionary ...

Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the ...

Sale of one of UK’s top collections overseas prompts call new rules to help keep items in country ...