Fossils of arthropods are rare, because soft tissue often decays before it can be preserved. But with this specimen, however, ...

Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

S ome "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved ...

Rare fossils uncovered in Colorado show an unexpected swamp-dwelling creature lived among the dinosaurs millions of years ago. A team of paleontologists uncovered the “new (or, more accurately, very ...

In a unique paleontological breakthrough, the Calvert Marine Museum has revealed the discovery of an ancient coprolite, or ...

Study of Monkey Fossils Found in Cave Sheds Light on the Animals' Extinction Centuries Ago Oct. 2, 2024 — By studying rare fossils of jaws and other skull parts of a long-extinct Caribbean ...

A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks ... “Preservation in pyrite of this kind is extremely rare. In the last half a billion years there are only a handful of examples ...

Rare but highly informative are fossils created by a sudden event, like a volcanic eruption, that traps living things or, in the famous case in Laetoli, Ethiopia, footprints of human ancestors ...

Coal, gas, and other fossil fuels are neither sustainable nor safe. We shouldn’t use them. Coal, oil, and methane gas are fossil fuels formed over time from the remains of living organisms. In the ...

Oct. 29, 2024 — Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species ...