And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

An environmental reconstruction of the East Kirkton area, some 346 million years ago, depicts the Westlothiana lizziae resting on a rock. Credit: Hector Garza Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton ...

The discovery has helped fill a 40-million-year gap in the evolutionary record of Lepidoptera, the period between their predicted origin and the oldest fossil previously found.

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO) is world-renown for fantastic shale fossil deposits (insects and plants), petrified Redwood trees, 6,000 acres with 15 miles of pristine hiking ...

The research team examined a rare fossil of Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus, a plant-eating dinosaur found in the late Cretaceous layers near the Hateg Basin in Romania. The experts noted a possible ...

Cores gathered from drowned fossil coral reefs preserved along the continental shelf edge of the Great Barrier Reef contain crucial information about historic corals, coralline algae and microbial ...

A 183-million-year-old fossil with preserved skin and scales is rewriting everything we thought we knew about how ancient sea monsters looked, moved, and evolved. “The Holzmaden specimen gives us an ...

For more than a decade, paleontologists have speculated about a single fossil that preserves skeletons of two of the world’s most famous dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. Not only ...

In the spring of 2000, road workers stumbled upon the remains of ancient species at what’s now known locally as the Gray Fossil Site.