A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

The world’s greatest fossil sites have one thing in common: someone went looking for them. Paleontologists choose formations that already have a track record, dig in sediments that have yielded ...

For most people who have ever opened an introductory geology book, the Grand Canyon arrives as a single, tidy picture. Sand at the bottom, mud above it, limestone on top, all sweeping gently across an ...

Palaeontologists found the "Furongian gap" era which had an explosion of bio-diversity within the fossil record both immediately before and after it.

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

At first, David Elze thought lightning or a tree hit the building where he works in Logan Township, New Jersey, as tiles fell from the ceiling Wednesday afternoon. But it wasn't either of those things ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

Canadian deep-sea fossils push the origin of animal sex and movement back 567 million years, rewriting early evolutionary ...

Today we're going back… way back. Four and a half billion years to be exact. If you compressed all of Earth's history into a ...

In low-latitude North China, riparian ecosystems began to recover 2–3 million years after the end-Permian mass extinction.