The ancient kitten was so small that it could comfortably fit in the palm of one's hand and was much smaller than the modern ...

after a century of it being "locked inside a block of stone". Researchers used powerful X-ray scans to examine the fossil, found a century ago in Scotland. Their study produced the first full ...

The soft tissue is fragile – skin, internal organs, and connective tissues typically deteriorate before the stone has a ...

Two big fossil teeth found at the site belong to an extinct human cousin, known as Paranthropus. Scientists had previously thought that Oldowan tools, a kind of simple stone implement, were only ...

Things like footprints, burrows, eggs and even poo (called coprolite) can be fossilised too. A fossil is the preserved remains or traces of a dead organism. The process by which a fossil is formed ...