Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” So goes the famous dictum of Sherlock Holmes, echoed by paleobotanist C. Kevin Boyce in summarizing ...

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

This striking revelation is set to reshape our understanding of early animal evolution. The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...

What can you tell us about this creature and the environment it lived in? The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost identical segments. Projecting from each is a delicate, gill-like structure.

May 13, 2025 — Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils ... Dexterity and Climbing Ability ...

Photo by Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi and Kotaro Saito (2025) For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE BONE, RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE CREATURE IT BELONGED TO MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 30FT LONG. THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo ...

Discovered in the Yehliu Geopark and Badouzi promontory of the island, the burrows are what are known as trace fossils—preserved imprints left behind by the activities of ancient animals.

But a recent fossil discovery near Frankfurt, Germany is helping expand our knowledge of the bug’s evolution—and it appears to be the earliest example of the Cicadinae subfamily ever found.