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

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

Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar.

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

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Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to ...