Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

The team led by the University of Cambridge published their study in the journal Nature and thought that the new fossil could attest to why birds survived the mass extinction event at the end of ...

Rockport State Recreation Area is known to have exposed fossils from the Devonian period – more than 400 million years ago.

A shark no larger than a human hand that stalked the ancient sea floor 340 million years ago has been dubbed the “chipmunk ...

New research into fossils found in Scotland’s Bone Caves suggests that polar bears may have once roamed the region during the last Ice Age. Scientists from the National Museum of Scotland, along with ...

“The Hualapai limestone formation built up in a giant ... “Numerous unique fossils” have been found in the park, but this one apparently has experts stumped. Park officials didn’t say ...

Fast forward to today, the U.K., with its iconic limestone cliffs, is considered one of the most exciting places to hunt for prehistoric fossils in Europe. Recently, the British train company ...

Mudstone, shale, and limestone are examples of sedimentary rock likely to contain fossils. As the layers of sediment build up on top of one another, they create a physical timeline. The oldest layers, ...