MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (01/12/2026) — A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the fossil record ...

Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...

Scientists confirm CT scanning doesn't interfere with natural decomposition processes, opening new windows into understanding how fossils form. Scientists have found that X-Ray scanning reveals ...

Beneath the dry farmland of New South Wales lies a hidden window into a lost rainforest teeming with life from 11-16 million ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 ...

For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent ...

Scientists still aren’t sure what exactly prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils tell us about life before the Cambrian Explosion, but at least they now understand why we have a remarkable fossil record ...