Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa Cruz province in Argentina. “They did not achieve their goal,” says Mariana Chuliver at ...

And the gold color isn’t just for show. The pyrite, located in a fossil-rich area near Rome, New York, known as “Beecher’s Bed,” helped to preserve the fossils by gradually taking the place of ...

The 550-million-year-old Quaestio simpsonorum is the first fossil to show a definitive left-right asymmetry, an important sign of evolutionary development in the history of animals. In 1947 ...

She showed it to Raymond Dart, her professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, who had encouraged his students to bring in any interesting fossil relics. Dart was interested in ...

A newly discovered frog fossil represents the oldest tadpole ever found, and it looks remarkably like the tadpoles you’re probably familiar with except for one thing—it was a giant.

All that glitters is not gold. But in the world of fossil discovery, a golden glitter is plenty of cause for celebration − even if it's not real. That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology ...

Several Pacific island nations singled out Australia to do more to phase out fossil fuel exports during the Commonwealth ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod (the group ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Princeton University has reversed a policy that had sharply constrained the funding of academic research by ...

Scientists uncovered strange fossil footprints of a tiny bird-sized feathered dinosaur in South Korea, a discovery that could shed new light on the origin of flight. The dinosaur, named Dromaeosau ...

From this, they identified a new fossil seed, Alasemenia. They first described the characteristics of Alasemenia by carefully analyzing the fossil samples, including making slices to view the seed ...