The fossil’s discovery in Brazil shows that ants have been around for longer than once thought. This insect impaled its prey ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

The unearthing of a 350 million-year-old tree fossil has opened the door to plants of the past. Five of these fossils were ...

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for ...

In February, scientific journal Palaeontologia Electronica published “Following their footsteps: Report of vertebrate fossil tracks from John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon ...

It stores it in the soil, plants or trees. These renewable sources of energy are much cleaner to use than fossil fuels because they do not produce harmful gases that cause pollution and climate ...

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History Paleontology Section offers fossil identification services for educational purposes, assisting collectors and members of the public.

The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History’s (UCM) Paleontology Section welcomes donations of fossils and related materials–such as associated data, images, field notes, and archival ...

Working mainly in the Kaiparowits formation, a 2,600-foot-thick deposit dating from 77 million to 75 million years ago, they’d unearthed fossils of thousands of plants and animals, from conifer ...

The Natural History Museum, London, is known for publishing excellent books and ‘A History of Plants in 50 Fossils’ is another tour de force to add to its catalogue. Telling the story of plant life on ...