How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

Scientists examined an ancient oyster with strange tooth-like structures and discovered that the tiny fossil was preserving a ...

Nearly 400 fossils unearthed in France's Montagne Noire region, some with soft tissue intact, reveal a diverse marine ...

Researchers have recreated the eerie calls that echoed through the Jurassic grasslands, steppes and woodlands 165 million ...

After repeatedly finding unusual round objects mixed among fossils on the beach, I decided to take a closer look at one and ...

What started as a simple fossil-hunting trip quickly turned into a search through Florida's prehistoric past. Shark teeth, ...

A snake fossil discovery in Wyoming has given palaeontologists an unusually close look at the lives of these ancient reptiles ...

Ancient marine fossils embedded in rocks near the summit of Mount Everest are drawing renewed attention after social media users pointed to the discovery as a possible link to the biblical story of ...

Known as the Gaia hypothesis, it proposes that Earth's living organisms, atmosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks form one ...

68 million years ago, at the edge of the Late Cretaceous, an enormous marine reptile laid an egg near the shore of the ...

This summer, Texan shores welcome an unusual sight: manatees. Historical fossils reveal that these gentle giants once swam in ...