When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life ...

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

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A paleontologist and a team of volunteers recently made a historic discovery at a Maryland park known for its fossils, according to an announcement from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fossilization is a fickle process. Many fossils are fragmented, scattered (often broken) bones turned slowly to stone over ...

A Rotadiscus grandis fossil (left) and an interpretive drawing (right). Credit: Li et al Exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Cambrian period have helped fill a gap in our understanding of ...

Scientists have discovered a rare, 520-million-year-old fossil with a highly unusual detail: its internal organs are preserved. The findings were published in Nature, a peer-reviewed scientific ...

The fossils, uncovered in Staffordshire’s White Peak region, belonged to goniatites — extinct relatives of modern squid and octopus.

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The fossil leech compared with a modern leech. Double arrows indicate the large caudal sucker used for attachment, single arrows indicate body annulations. A newly described fossil reveals that ...