Climate change impacts not only life on land but also the largely unexplored deep-sea ecosystem, home to unique and largely ...

The second fossil of my grandmother is the sparrow of her voice, how it woke me often, calling in the night. The third fossil ...

A new fossil discovery sheds new light on a 47-million-year-old "alien plant" species that is the only example ever found of ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Nicknamed Apex, the 27-foot-long Stegosaurus was a plated, spiky-tailed herbivore who roamed the earth 150 million years ago.

The Fossil Record Electronic Database (FRED) is an important tool for many paleontologists—and amateur dinosaur enthusiasts can use it, too.

Queensland Museum scientists describe the 400-million-year-old fossil Palaeospondylus australis, possibly the smallest ...

Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The Primate Fossil ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

Smallest arm bone in the human fossil record sheds light on the dawn of Homo floresiensis Aug 6, 2024 300,000-year-old snapshot: Oldest human footprints from Germany found ...

Despite calls to halt humanity’s burning of the filthiest fossil fuel driving climate change, the energy watchdog expects ...

Darwin himself was shaken by their absence. His conclusion was that the fossil record was lacked these transitional stages, because it was so incomplete. That is certainly true in many cases ...