How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

On Friday, paleontologists and crews removed dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site in Dinosaur National Monument.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines significantly influenced extinction patterns for animals living in the shallow oceans ...

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

D inosaurs once roamed in Utah ’s Dinosaur National Monument Park. The evidence is embedded in the rocks, but some enormous – ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how fossils are made, check out these gummy worms and bread fossils. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when ...