Paleontologists
The location, called Sirius Passet in Peary Land in the far north of Greenland, has been known as an early Cambrian fossil site, but it lies close to a geological fold belt. Having been heated to 200° C or more by metamorphism, most of the fossils at Sirius Passet have...
Following Ray Stanford's 2012 discovery, a NASA volunteer works to excavate the slab containing the fossil footprints.
A long-necked dinosaur unearthed in Egypt has yielded the first evidence of contact between African and European...
A new species of bristle worm that lived about 508 million years ago (Cambrian period) has been identified from fossils found in...
Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report the first description of the geologically oldest fossil securely attributable to the genus ...
Researchers have found the fossil of a dinosaur in the Sahara Desert, which could help explain the evolution of the animals in the continent.
The fossil park in Balasinor had revealed fossils of Rajasaurus Narmadensis, a carnivorous species of the...
Dinosaurs that lived in what is now known as Victoria more than 120 million years ago would have dealt with prolonged periods of darkness and below freezing temperatures, a new study reveals.
The biggest discoveries can be made by the unlikeliest of scientists, like a volunteer sifting through desert rocks.
A new study based on recent findings might shed a new light on annelids (ringed worms). Researchers now have solid evidence that these animals developed heads more than 500 million years ago. An extremely well-preserved fossil also suggests how the head...