A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, ...

As such, researchers at Cambridge University and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been studying tiny ancient fossils ...

Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A recent study has shown the behaviors of ancient species that once roamed the area that is now known as Oregon. In February, scientific journal Palaeontologia Electronica ...