A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...

A new study from the University of Missouri reveals how the remarkable fossil preservation at Mazon Creek recorded a wide ...

A rare fossil in Dominican amber unveils a miniature, ancient “dirt ant” once native to the Caribbean. Ants are a common sight wherever soil is found, but one group is so expertly camouflaged that ...

A new long-necked marine reptile, Plesionectes longicollum, has been identified from a decades-old fossil found in Germany’s Posidonia Shale. The remarkably preserved specimen rewrites part of the ...