The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...
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 ...
In a unique paleontological breakthrough, the Calvert Marine Museum has revealed the discovery of an ancient coprolite, or ...
Paleontologist Luke Parry told Newsweek that the fossils, originally found in New York, are an "extremely rare" find.
Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...
In 1939, Smith named the species Latimeria chalumnae, also known as gombessa. Since then, this species, found along the east ...
During the late middle Pleistocene, between 300 and 400 thousand years ago, at least three ancient elephant relatives died ...
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 ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research ...