Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossils on Earth, 3.7 billion-year-old microbial remnants, uncovered in Greenland’s Isua Greenstone Belt. This exceptional discovery suggests that life ...
Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant instead of gradually unfolding over deep time. A new idea about how ...
A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...
Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.
A team of researchers has identified and described Vulcanoscaptor ninoti ("the Camp dels Ninots volcano digger"), a previously unknown genus and species of Pliocene mole. The fossil was unearthed at ...
When he shook hands with the amateur fossil hunter in 1988, Richard Hebda, head of botany at the Royal B.C. Museum, was not ...
He also noted that features such as bipedalism, toothless beaks, hollow bones, and large eye sockets are typically associated ...