The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

After an ancient mass extinction wiped out ocean life, what came next? A quarry in China just answered that question.

What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

Half a billion years after Earth’s first mass extinction, a quarry in China has cracked open a lost ocean world.

Paleontologists have made an exciting discovery with the uncovering of a 15-million-year-old fish fossil in the Australian desert. This extraordinary specimen, found in the renowned McGraths Flat ...

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

Triceratops and similar horned dinosaurs had unusually large nasal cavities compared to most animals. Researchers, including those from the University of Tokyo, used CT scans of fossilized Triceratops ...

A new study has revealed that a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil featured both smooth and scaly skin. The specimen, ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.