How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms. Burial is a critical factor in the preservation of most fossils, keeping scavengers away and preventing the disarticulation ...

A stunning new fossil find from the Grand Canyon fills in some blanks from a time when evolution began experimenting with weird new forms. About half a billion years ago, life on Earth really started ...

Every once in a great while paleontological fieldwork turns up a fossil so extraordinary that it revolutionizes our understanding of the origin and evolution of an entire branch of the tree of life.