Ever strolled around your island and stumbled upon a star-shaped crack, wondering what's beneath? Welcome to the world of fossils in Animal Crossing! These ancient remnants offer a blend of education, ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

Amateur fossil hunter Robert Beattie has been searching for remnants of the past ever since he was a child. Now, some of his ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

The newly classified species, named Plesionectes longicollum ("long-necked near-swimmer"), represents a previously unknown type of plesiosauroid—the group of long-necked marine reptiles that inhabited ...

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and was preserved in excellent ...

An "incredible discovery" and a "chance finding" is how a family have described uncovering a prehistoric hand axe. Mel ...

Flinders University fossil experts have unearthed more clues about why kangaroos and wallabies have endured to become one of ...