For more than 25 years, a small, soft-bodied fossil pulled from an Illinois coal mine held a remarkable title: the world’s ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

Today, fossils feel almost self-explanatory. You see a tooth, a shell, or a skeleton in a museum case and instinctively treat it as evidence of ancient life, preserved over immense spans of time. That ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

In the U.S., many states have an official state fossil, or even a designated state dinosaur. Some states recognize an official dinosaur in celebration of the specific region's paleontology, and others ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – Did you know that New Mexico has a state fossil? It is the Coelophysis (see-low-FYS-iss). (Artist rendition of Coelophysis, Courtesy Adobe Stock) The Coelophysis remains were found ...

Two fish fossils found in China have given us more insight into what bony fish looked like before separate lineages diverged.