One day in Chicago, a slab of ancient limestone arrived at the Field Museum. To the untrained eye, it looked unremarkable, ...

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

If you're looking for a truly unique Wyoming trip, visit this site where you can see fossils in the remains of what was a 52 ...

Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to science. The ant was preserved in limestone and is described in a study ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— ...

The Chicago specimen is the smallest Archaeopteryx ever discovered, about the size of a pigeon. It was found in limestone ...

a geological deposit renowned for its exceptional fossil preservation. Preserved in limestone, the newly described extinct insect is what’s known as a hell ant, a member of a subfamily called ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It is the oldest known fossil bird and helps demonstrate that all birds ...