Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...
Essexella, a 310-million-year-old fossil sea anemone from Illinois. Credit: Papers in Palaeontology Billions of sea anemones adorn the bottom of the Earth's oceans—yet they are among the rarest of ...
A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...
In 2024, a group of paleontologists journeyed into the dry, sandy desert of northern Egypt in search of fossils in a valley ...
This study surveys the late Holocene vertebrate fossil record from Isla Floreana, Galápagos. Over 20,000 fossils from four lava tubes in the arid lowlands near Post Office Bay are associated with six ...