The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world.

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Integrating shimmering ammonites, toothy mosasaurs and a massive haul of specimens into the growing National Fossil Collection Jack Tamisiea 2022 was a busy year at the National Museum of Natural ...

Construction workers made an incredible discovery at Dinosaur National Monument when parking lot work unearthed fossils ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque will open a new exhibit in a few weeks, showcasing 600 fossils from a time before dinosaurs. The display will highlight various ...