Plus, Chicago’s Field Museum already has major fossil clout, so it’s the perfect battleground for Pokémon-meets-prehistory. Don’t expect just the usual fossil pokemons like Kabutops and ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that clearly demonstrated Darwin's views. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds -- including the ones alive today -- emerged from dinosaurs.

Archaeopteryx specimens have, “maybe more than any other fossil, changed the way that we see the world,” said Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Over 164 ...

Scientists recently described the insect as a new genus and species, using this fossil and one other that was nearly as well preserved, from the same site. Even though the specimens are female ...

The study is based on fossils unearthed from Murgon on the traditional lands of the Waka Waka people of south-eastern Queensland. The new species, Litoria tylerantiqua, is named in honor of the ...

The unique features of Mosura fentoni astounded paleontologists. Paleontologists have discovered that a three-eyed sea moth predator lived on Earth half a billion years ago with evidence found in ...

(Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is revealing an array of previously unknown features of the earliest-known bird ...

Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It's the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive today—are dinosaurs. And while the first ...

Fossil claw prints found in Australia were probably made by the earliest known members of the group that includes reptiles, birds and mammals, according to a study published in Nature today. The ...

Protein-rich bodies trigger oxygen depletion, fostering mineral replacement and fossil formation. Smaller creatures or those with less protein are more likely to decay completely. For centuries ...

When Jason Bourque first spotted the fossil, it looked small. Just half an inch wide, it sat quietly in a box. But something about it stayed with him for years. He could never quite let it go.

After more than two decades spent in a private collection, one of the most detailed and complete fossil sets arrived at the Chicago’s Field Museum in 2022. But before it made its public debut ...