For decades, the coelacanthexisted only in fossil records—until one turned up in a South African fishing net. It was 1938 ...

A newly discovered scorpion fossil is rewriting the story of ancient ecosystems. This rare find, named Jeholia longchengi, ...

Three hundred and sixty million years ago, in the Devonian era, there were no trees ... years after the discovery of the first Prototaxites fossils, scientists argued about whether they were ...

We may study the stars, indeed, with tne aid of fossils in terrestrial rocks ... Cmoooic (Age of mammals modern floras) and .If csoooic (Age of reptiles) Palcocoic (Age of amphibians, fishes ...

In October 2022, a study published in the journal Global Change Biology revealed that the first animals on Earth may have evolved earlier than even our oldest fossils suggest ... occasionally reveal a ...

Anatolia, the western part of modern-day Turkey that sits at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, is a fossil-rich ...

A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown ...

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

From this, the researchers developed a model that predicts fur colour based on melanosome shape and applied this to six fossils of different early mammals. All six fossils came from the same ...

Researchers have dated volcanic layers at six fossil-bearing sites in Turkey, including one known as Taşhan (shown). The ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

The new research is the first to look back at early mammals in full color. Using advanced fossil imaging methods and a thorough examination of the pigment-producing cells present in living mammals ...