The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

Among some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing that the way these fossils were preserved is far from what scientists ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

Learn how fossil evidence reveals the repeatable way early humans accessed, processed, and shared meat.

In 2019, two Harvard researchers visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah pulled open a drawer of confiscated Cambrian ...

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) strata of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The mouse ...

In 1909, Charles Doolittle Walcott discovered the Burgess Shale formation in British Columbia, revealing exceptionally ...