In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up for well over a century, but every so often something turns up inside them that throws everyone a bit. You expect bones, maybe teeth, maybe the odd imprint. In other ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

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 ...