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

ANY RECREATIONAL DRUGS. A NEW EXHIBIT IS OPEN AT THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE. IT IS CALLED ANCIENT LIFE AND SHOWCASES SOME OF NEW MEXICO’S OLDEST LIFE FORMS. I BEGAN ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville State ...

Materials are from the Charles Walcott Collection, and include field notes, photographs, sketches and stratagraphic sections detailing Walcott's observations and work in geology and paleontology, ...

This specimen is one of two lobopodians from the Carboniferous, the last period within the Paleozoic—and represents the youngest fossil lobopodian species yet discovered. It's also a transition fossil ...

High school teacher Ashley Allen’s discovery of 300-million-year-old fossils in an Alabama coal mine turned him into a modern-day Indiana Jones, rewriting prehistoric history!

Geology of the older precambrian rocks of the upper granite gorge of the Grand Canyon / R.S. Babcock, E.H. Brown, and M.D. Clark -- The younger precambrian rocks of the Grand Canyon / Trevor D. Ford ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.