The team of researchers discovered a large number of squid fossils from rocks of the late Cretaceous period using a technique ...

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that some of the most surprising of them might be wind turbine blades.

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

This finding refutes the hypothesis that any organics found in fossils must result from contamination.The fossil at the center of the discovery is a well-preserved sacrum of an Edmontosaurus, a ...

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz say.

Based on the rock strata in which it was found, the researchers suspect the fossil is about 113 million years old, 13 million years older than the previous oldest known ant fossil.

But one fossil that might really turn heads among far-future palaeontologists as they explore the extraordinary strata of the human epoch are the relics of wind turbines.

Rocks and fossils contain many lessons of life and death on ancient earth. A particularly impressive example is found in the Permian limestone of the Guadalupe Mountains in west Texas. Fossil ...

The study underscores the crucial role of China's fossil-rich strata and exemplifies how international collaboration continues to transform our understanding of life's earliest chapters.

When fossil remains were found that were unlike anything living at the time, some scientists argued that they were unusual examples of living creatures, or that animals known only from fossils ...

The new findings potentially give scientists a “ready-made trove of fossil candidates” to explore.

Tyrannosaur Teeth Fuel Rare Fossil Find in England Learn about the discovery of Tyrannosaur fossils in the southern coast of England, showing that the dinosaurs lived in the region 135 million years ...