The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...
The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.
How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...
Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...
(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...
Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...
What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...
When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...