Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates that eventually moved onto land. By reanalyzing mysterious fossils from ...

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation. Dating back about 125 million years to the Early Cretaceous period, this ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest reveal that the world’s highest mountain was once part of an ancient ocean floor before tectonic collisions lifted the Himalayas.

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...