A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the season of skeletons approaches, it’s worth remembering that the real “age ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of ...

The fossil shows a unique evolutionary adaptation: a mechanism that likely allowed it to firmly anchor to surrounding rocks.

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

Step aside, carbon dating. Paleontologists date fossils based on the clues in the rocks surrounding them. When paleontologists dig up a fossil from the ground, how do they figure out the age of the ...

Construction at a high school uncovered millions of fossils dating back nearly 9 million years. The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery ...

A breakthrough in nuclear imaging is unlocking coral fossils to reveal 600,000 years of reef and climate evolution.

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

A 230-million-year-old fossil found in Argentina shows that the evolution of sauropod dinosaurs’ long necks began earlier ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) - The Idaho Museum of Natural History is bringing people back in time for a chance to check out some ...

If you want to know the reason Nevada’s State Fossil is the shonisaurus popularis, you should visit Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Here, you can take a trip to the remote wilderness that you can see ...

If you look closer at the building stones, tiles and pavements of the big city, you can find a hidden world of geology and ...