Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

This striking revelation is set to reshape our understanding of early animal evolution. The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province ...

The research team published their findings on May 8 in the American Journal of Botany. The fossils, at least 2 million years old, represent the first direct evidence of an endangered tropical tree ...

Triassic fossil reveals nature's best jaw for hunting fast fish Date: May 7, 2025 Source: Virginia Tech Summary: Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated ...

BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE BONE, RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE CREATURE IT BELONGED TO MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 30FT LONG. THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have ...

Photo by Hiroaki Aiba, Yui Takahashi and Kotaro Saito (2025) For decades, an “extremely rare” fossil sat unidentified in Japan’s Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo ...

The fossil is now back at the SRSU paleontology lab, where students and researchers are carefully studying it, along with associated vertebrae previously collected from the same quarry.

But a recent fossil discovery near Frankfurt, Germany is helping expand our knowledge of the bug’s evolution—and it appears to be the earliest example of the Cicadinae subfamily ever found.

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

But the decline in the coming decade will be slowed due in large part to data center expansion powered by fossil fuels, according to the latest New Energy Outlook report from BloombergNEF.

Mississippi has yielded numerous significant fossil discoveries in recent years, including a saber-toothed cat jaw and a Columbian mammoth tusk. The state's diverse fossil record spans from ...

It’s an award-worthy fossil in many ways, being the oldest-known specimen of a thorny-headed worm and a new-to-science species, but perhaps most impressive of all is how it was found ...