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

The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

By Shanna Hanbury A “remarkably well-preserved” fossil discovered in Brazil, dating back 113 million years, is now the oldest ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Kilkenny Limestone have donated a large block of fossiliferous limestone to the University College Cork (UCC) to assist with ...