The brilliant iridescent hues found in ammolite come from tiny air gaps in the fossils’ layers, a new study finds.

(CNN) — Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable ...

Some well-preserved sea life fossils formed 183 million years ago didn't form in a no-oxygen environment as researchers previously thought, according to new analysis of the fossils by a team including ...

Fossil hunters in Kenya have uncovered footprints on an ancient shore that are teaching us something entirely new about how ancient hominins lived.

Scientists have just revealed their findings on what are being described as the most pristine trilobite fossils ever found. The fossils, which show both hard exterior features and soft inner tissues, ...

Paleolithic hunters built mammoth traps in what is now Mexico some 14,700 years ago. An unknown sea creature left footprints in sand some 550 million years ago, making them the oldest known footprints ...

LAWRENCE, Kansas— A couple hundred million years ago, an ocean covering Kansas teemed with prehistoric life. Yet for millennia, Kansas has been a dry, sometimes even dusty, place. The ocean is long ...

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