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Tiny ancient fish fossil with preserved brain offers clues to early fish evolution

Over 300 million years ago, a minnow-sized fish died and fell to the bottom of a prehistoric swamp near the village of Trawden, Lancashire, in northwest England. The remains of thi...

Underwater Cave Bones Reveal Hidden Clues About Ancient Fossils

Distinct marks on cave bones can reveal how underwater fossil deposits formed and changed over time. Deep inside flooded caves, animal bones can remain remarkably intact for decade...

Paleontology rocked by organic molecules found in 66-million-year-old dinosaur bones

Researchers have found strong evidence that original collagen can survive inside dinosaur fossils for tens of millions of years, overturning a long-standing assumption about fossil...

Scientists Discover a 300-Million-Year-Old Geological Time Capsule Inside Fossilized Wood

Researchers used quartz from fossilized wood to trace how Europe developed. A polished piece of fossilized wood may look like little more than a decorative stone, yet the quartz in...

Ichthyosaur Fossil Found in Roman Britain Pit

COLCHESTER, ENGLAND—Phys.org reports that a 100 million-year-old marine reptile fossil was found in a pit, […] The post Ichthyosaur Fossil Found in Roman Britain Pit appeared first...

100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Preserves an Ichthyosaur That Ate a Pterosaur Before Becoming Food for a Giant Predator

Discover a unique fossil find from the Australian Outback detailing how a large ichthyosaur preyed on a pterosaur before it became prey itself, a first of it's kind find. 

In MP, a tribal shrine turns out to be 65-million-year-old rare coral fossil

A revered stone, closely protected by the Baiga tribe in Dindori, has been revealed to be a rare coral fossil from the time of dinosaurs, dating back sixty-five million years. Afte...

This Fossil Sat in a Drawer for 40 Years. Now It’s Changing What We Know About Dinosaurs in Antarctica

A case of mistaken identity resolved decades later.

Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.

Nearly Complete Fossil Reveals Scientists Were Wrong About This Ancient Mammal

An exceptionally preserved Cretaceous mammal challenges longstanding assumptions about early placental relatives. A nearly complete mammal skeleton recovered from Mongolia’s Gobi D...

Most complete skeleton of 30 million-year-old dog discovered

For decades, a 30 million-year-old fossil sat entombed in rock in an Oregon museum collection. When it was first found, paleontologists thought it might be an early relative of she...

“One-in-a-million” sea creature fossil preserves soft tissue for 450 million years

Scientists have identified exceptionally rare soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil, more than 200 million years older than the first dinosaurs. Its delica...

Unique fossil reveals the internal organs of a 245-million-year-old marine reptile

Scientists from China, Europe and the U.S., including Dr. Stephan Spiekman, a paleontologist at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart and the University of Hohenheim, have...

“One in a Million” Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth’s earliest reef animals lived and evolved. More than 450 million years ago, long before...

A forgotten fossil just revealed a new Triassic predator from 210 million years ago

A fossil overlooked for nearly 80 years has revealed a previously unknown crocodile relative that lived 210 million years ago in what is now New Mexico. Named Eosphorosuchus lacrim...

‘One In A Million’: Scientists Stunned By 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature Fossil That Still Has Soft Tissue Intact

A whopping 200 million years older than the earliest dinosaurs, this fossil holds the remains of a crinoid, a starfish-like sea creature that thrived in Earth's oceans before the f...

These underwater bones could solve a mystery about extinct giants

Animal bones preserved in South Australia’s underwater caves reveal distinctive clues shaped by darkness, algae, bacteria, and other environmental conditions. The findings give sci...

Giant fossil left in Arctic in 1948 later revealed a record-size predator

Spectacular fossil preserves internal organs of ancient marine reptile

A stunningly intact marine reptile named Austronaga minuta that lived around 245 million years ago may have looked like a miniature version of more famous later ocean predators, li...

New fossil park opening in Evia

Fossilized tree trunks are seen in Kerasia, northern Evia, during preparations for a new natural history site, on Saturday.

Tiny Fossil Overlooked for Decades Reveals a New Ice Age Species

A tiny fossil overlooked for decades at La Brea Tar Pits has turned out to belong to a species previously unknown to science. Researchers have identified Spea labreae, a previously...

Fringe paleontology gets weird fast

Paleontology already gives us giant carnivorous lizards, five-eyed sea creatures, and enough weird fossils to make science fiction seem boring. So, obviously, fringe paleontology h...

This 100-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Brutal Chain of Cretaceous Violence

The findings represent the first three-tier predator interaction from the Dinosaur Age.

Forgotten for 20 Years, This 240-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a New Reptile Species

Fragmentary bones from Brazil reveal a new Triassic reptile close to the lineage that preceded dinosaurs and crocodiles. Some 240 million years ago, long before dinosaurs dominated...