HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When you think about fossils, you probably imagine bones buried in the earth. But a team of researchers using the Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea recently discovered a rare ...

It’s easy to forget that all humans roaming Earth’s surface are walking above an endless number of animal fossils. There’s a good chance, for example, that you’ve walked over your fair share of ...

Christian Sidor, Burke Museum curator of vertebrate paleontology and a biology professor at the University of Washington, recounts the discovery of Triassic fossils. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) More ...

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Predictions of how marine organisms like mollusks, sea urchins and coccolithophores will continue to form their calcium carbonate components as climate change impacts the oceans rely heavily on the ...

Hiding in plain sight in Japan, researchers identified a new, “extremely rare” butterfly species with a remarkable wingspan of 3.5 inches—the first in its subfamily. Initially discovered in 1988, the ...

Researchers say they have discovered what appears to be the oldest imprint of a prehistoric insect, made while the dragonfly-like creature was still alive. The imprint — found at a rocky outcrop near ...

Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South ...

While walking along a local creek in Birmingham, Alabama, Tristen Klavenga came across a rock by the side of the stream that appeared to be covered in scales. At first, Klavenga thought it might have ...

In fossil leaves, puzzling structures are often visible under the microscope. Researchers have now been able to show for the first time that they originate from calcium oxalate crystals. On the one ...

Richard Knecht was lost in a swamp. His hunt for fossils was not going according to plan. One of Knecht’s students had found an unpublished masters thesis from 1929, which described a nearby area that ...