How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body's health. Usually, a blood sample is taken to get a picture of the large molecules that are ...

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

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Southern Africa is world renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very distant past, including dinosaurs ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

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

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

Imagine you’re walking to work when you unwittingly make a massive contribution to science. That was the experience for a Southern California science teacher who discovered a never-before-seen whale ...

D inosaurs once roamed in Utah ’s Dinosaur National Monument Park. The evidence is embedded in the rocks, but some enormous – ...