An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ever record of such a ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

The fossils recovered in the area are from about 200 million years ago, in the early Jurassic period, when the land used to be covered by a body of water known as Lake Whitmore. The fossils are ...

visitors can follow fossil evidence tracing the evolution of life during the Cambrian period — the first geological period of the Paleozoic era — which lasted from 541 million to 485 million ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

Scientists have found a Jurassic-age fossil in China that changes our understanding ... Unlike Archaeopteryx, the other Jurassic-era bird known to science, Baminornis had a short, fused pygostyle ...

Paleontologist Rodrigo Muller said the fossil's discovery is particularly interesting because it is an almost complete and articulated hindlimb. Trump signs executive order requiring proof of ...

However, the fossil found, which would be a 555-million-year-old worm, would represent the oldest member of the aforementioned superphylum and the only one from the Precambrian period The fossil ...

We have the 3-letter answer for "Cat ___" (period when cats become rare in the fossil record) crossword clue, last seen in the Apple+ Crossword February 23, 2025 puzzle. Sometimes we all need some ...

It unveils a prehistoric world from the early Permian period, over 280 million years ago, when the landlocked region was submerged beneath a frigid ocean. Gondwana Marine Fossil Park, Manendragarh ...