Chinese paleontologist Xing Xu and colleagues...  ...d another article about how the research on these fossils was done at The Loom. Link

Of all invertebrates, the octopus is considered th...  ...amin comes in. “Charles Camp puzzled over these fossils in the 1950s,” said McMenamin. “In his papers...

The earth saw a mysterious episode of global warming 56 million years ago due to a surge of carbon into the atmosphere. Animals could walk from continent to continent and never see ice. That period is called PETM, or the...

I don’t know about you guys, but I am fascin...  ...st. Mary Anning enjoyed collecting seashells and fossils ever since her dad taught her how to dig up fossils when she was a little girl. The duo then sold the...  ...scovering more and more dino skeletons, including fossils...

One way mammals are different from most animals is...  ...of smell. CT scans of 190-million-year-old mammal fossils indicate that much of the the brain growth was in...  ...smell. "We studied the outside features of these fossils for years," said Tim Rowe, professor in the Jacks...  ...til now, studying the bra...

If you haven't studied dinosaurs since you were an...  ...to do! As paleontologists find more and different fossils , our body of knowledge about the prehistoric rept...

Hundred of millions of years ago, sea creatures cr...  ...later, a few went back into the sea, but left few fossils to show us how they did it -or at least that's wh...  ...n the space of just three decades, a flood of new fossils has filled in the gaps in our knowledge to turn t...  ...ir fossil predecessors we...

Ischigualasto, meaning "the place where you pu...  ...is now arid and contains so many plant and animal fossils that paleontologists come from all over the world...

Austin Houldsworth is an "interactive artist". He wanted to see if it was possible to speed up the fossilization process from a few million years to a few months, and built a machine that he thought might do the job. P...

Belgian scientist Olivier Lambert has discovered a new species of whale, a prehistoric sperm whale that was a real killer. Leviathan melvillei was the size of modern sperm whales, with a very big difference: Today’s s...