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

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

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 ...

Scientists in Argentina have uncovered the world’s oldest tadpole fossil, dating back 161 million years to the Jurassic ...

A team of researchers analyzed a 12-million-year-old fossilized bone discovered in Colombia's fossiliferous Tatacoa Desert ...

In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...

In a fossil-rich pocket of northern New South Wales, two pioneering palaeontologists have spent decades digging up rare ...

Colorado paleontologists found a rare fossil mammal, Heleocola piceanus, from 70-75 million years ago. The discovery shows some ancient mammals were larger than previously thought. A team of ...

Rare extinct elephant fossils in India reveal the earliest known evidence of butchery, shedding light on ancient human survival strategies.

A new species of fossil mammal about the size of a muskrat, which was found in Colorado, lived during the age of dinosaurs.

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find.