The peculiar Cambrian object known as Brooksella, studied for more than a century, may never have been a fossil at all. New research suggests it could simply be a very unusual rock formed by natural ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

The heavily armoured Spicomellus lived more than 165 million years ago in what is now Morocco One of the world’s strangest dinosaurs is even more bizarre than first realised. New fossils found in ...

Before microscopes and satellites, the unknown world was a canvas for myth. When ancient explorers discovered fossils, ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

Two tiny pterosaurs, preserved for 150 million years, have revealed a surprising cause of death: violent storms. Researchers at the University of Leicester discovered both hatchlings, nicknamed Lucky ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites—McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

Richard O. Prum is in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and at the Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA. Read the paper: Triassic diapsid shows early ...

The Grand Canyon is one of the most remarkable landforms in America, attracting millions of tourists each year. The geological marvel reveals the power of erosion over long periods of time. It is also ...

Many of them, including a duck-billed dinosaur mummy discovered in 1908, hail from an area in eastern Wyoming, US. In the new ...