A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

A forgotten fossil discovered in a museum drawer after more than 60 years is challenging assumptions about animal evolution.

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Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

Roughly 500 million years ago, a strange event in the evolution of life on Earth seems to have taken place. The known fossil ...

After an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, there is very little evidence of fish in the fossil record. Now, a ...

WASHINGTON (August 20, 2024) – Much of the early human fossil record originates from just a few places in Africa, where favorable geological conditions have preserved a trove of fossils used by ...

Beginning with a recently discovered 47-million-year-old primate fossil, Switek effectively and eloquently demonstrates the exponential increase in fossils that have been found since Darwin first ...

The origin of turtles has always been a bit of a puzzle for scientists who study the evolution of animals. To this day, where ...