Discovered in Australia, the fossils represent a new species that lived during the Miocene epoch and highlight how iron-rich ...
An ongoing Paleontological Resource Inventory discovered the new species, called Clavusodens mcginnisi, while collecting ...
A fossil hunter found all eight pieces of it ... Gone is the animal body, but a three-dimensional imprint remains inside the rock that formed around it, called a concretion. Work like this seeks ...
Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.
A 20-year-old rock slab in a Queensland school has been found to contain an impressive collection of 66 dinosaur footprints, ...
Researchers were able to examine the fish in great detail using a powerful microscope. See what they discovered.
Scientists have found ancient nail tooth shark fossils deep inside Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, revealing new information about ...
The specimen, likely to be of the ancestors of modern whales, would have helped geologists assess the paleontological ...
A trove of fossilised dinosaur footprints has been found on a slab of rock gathering dust inside an Australian school, ...
Wang: A fossil’s age is always later than the species’ actual origin. To estimate evolutionary timelines, scientists ...