Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner tissues, ...

The discovery of fossils – or “ghosts” – of plankton that lived millions of years ago is shedding new light on how they reacted to global warming events in the past. An international team of ...

Lucknow, is documenting stromatolites, layered structures formed by ancient cyanobacteria that are considered among the earliest fossils on the planet.

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep ...

BLUE MOUNTAINS, Australia: Fossils formed more than 20 million years ago are helping to save some of Australia’s endangered species from the effects of climate change. In what has become known as ...

The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

Ancient fossils unearthed in Morocco reveal parasitic worms burrowing into mollusc shells approximately 480 million years ago ...

Fossils are an essential record of life on Earth that demonstrate long periods of stability, punctuated by episodes of rapid or even catastrophic change. Their value is both abstract, as a window into ...

For years, paleontologists debated the timeline for recovery following the devastating end-Permian mass extinction (the ...

In this activity, your class will examine the process of fossilisation. They will discuss how fossils are formed by mineralisation of the remains of living organisms. They will explore this effect by ...

Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of dead organisms. They show us how living things and the environment have changed since the time they were alive. Fossils have been found in rocks of all ...