Fossils are the remains or traces of ancient plants or animals that have been preserved in rock, a process that takes many, many years. Fossils are not bones. In fact, they more closely resemble rocks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 500-million-year-old fossil offered a rare treasure: the imprint of an animal that literally died in its tracks. By Helen Sullivan More than half a billion years ago, in what is today southern China ...

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 One of Knecht’s students had found an unpublished masters thesis from 1929, which described a nearby area that ...

There’s just something about dinosaurs. They’re big, mysterious, and long gone—mostly. “Paleontology is a bit like piecing together this puzzle of the past,” says Kristen Olson, senior coordinator of ...