A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen, ...

Introduction. Famous fossils, hidden histories -- The old man of La Chapelle: the patriarch of paleo -- Piltdown: a name without a fossil -- The Taung Child: the rise of a folk hero -- Peking Man: a ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs – some of the most famous in North America – have just been formally identified as belonging to a “very odd” new genus of the sea monster, unlike any previously known ...

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But this latest discovery seems to challenge that. It appears that Paranthropus had greater dietary flexibility than first interpreted, could adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions and was ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

Jane, the world-famous tyrannosaur fossil at the Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a Tyrannosaurus rex after all. A new study published in Nature by Lindsay Zanno of the North Carolina ...

T. rex's story has been turned on its head by a new discovery about one of the world's most famous fossil finds. One of the creatures locked in the “Duelling Dinosaurs” specimen is not a young T. rex ...

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh. — ScottRobertAnselmo — CC BY-SA 3.0 Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural ...