The earliest known dinosaur fossils date back to approximately 230 million years ago. Recent research suggests that even ...

The fossil was found at a cliff in Denmark. Fossilized vomit is called regurgitalite, and it's a type of trace fossil, which ...

A dark imprint of the animal's body runs along the inside of the fossil, making it a particularly dramatic record ... that there was a coating over the entire fossil – fairly common practice ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary arms race. These 517-million-year-old predator-prey ...

The year 2024 was the hottest on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. All 10 of the hottest years have ...

in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk ... While the nodules can preserve an entire animal’s body in 3-D, the cross-section that becomes visible when a nodule is cracked ...

Ginkgos also have a rich fossil record dating back to the Jurassic Period, meaning we can apply what we learn about reconstructing climates from today's ginkgos to the past hundred million years ...