Crack open Illinois’ prehistoric past at this hidden fossil spot, where ordinary rocks can reveal 300-million-year-old ...
For decades, a collection of fossil fragments sat forgotten in museum drawers — a paleontological “cold case” waiting for modern technology to crack it. Originally unearthed in 1986 by Dr. Mary Dawson ...
For decades, a collection of fossil fragments sat forgotten in museum drawers — a paleontological “cold case” waiting for modern technology to crack it. Originally unearthed in 1986 by Dr. Mary Dawson ...
But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...
Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.
Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...
A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...
Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...