Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...
How paleontologists interpret the fossil record is about to change, as new research challenges our understanding of bone ...
For the first time in over 100 years, fossils have been excavated from the parking lot of the Quarry Exhibit Hall at Dinosaur ...
Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ancient Romans purposely collected and modified the tiny fossils. A computer ...
The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that ...