Fossils

A Ptychodus shark fossil found in Mexico Romain Vullo Exquisitely preserved fossils of a shark that thrived during the Cretaceous…

The living mammal family tree is full of diverse species–big blue whales, great apes, bats, rodents, and humans, to name…

The alligator gar is an example of a living fossil. These plants, animals, and fungi show very little species diversity…

In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don’t usually include any leaves to show…

The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia’s Northern Territory; it’ll set again in another 19 hours.…

Ancient tiny fossils from Australia may carry evidence of great power: the ability to make oxygen through photosynthesis. The fossilized…

Microscope image of modern cyanobacteria called oscillatoria Shutterstock / Ekky Ilham Researchers have identified photosynthetic structures inside fossils of cyanobacteria…

Illustration of a Nanotyrannus fighting with a young Tyrannosaurus rex Raul Martin Tyrannosaurus rex may not have been the only…

Early in the 1970s, a paleontologist working on the outskirts of an Indian village found small, bead-like fossils embedded in…

Paleontologists are getting a glimpse at life over a billion years in the past based on chemical traces in ancient…