Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate

Callichimaera perplexa

Meet Callichimaera perplexa, the platypus of crabs

Examining embryo-like fossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo formation, South China

Reconstruction of the giant pterosaur Hatzegopteryx launching into the air, just after the forelimbs have left the ground. Credit: Mark Witton

Pterosaurs and other fossil flyers to better engineer human-made flight

Lemurs, lorises and galagoes have nails on most digits and grooming claws on their second toes

Fossils show ancient primates had grooming claws as well as nails

Paleontologist names a carnivorous reptile that preceded dinosaurs

A fossil trilobite with its complex eye

Enhancing our vision of the past

Laser-stimulated fluorescence imaging of a pterosaur fossil reveals flight-related soft tissues. The imaging revealed a muscular wing root fairing that smooths airflow around the wing-body junction and reduces drag, as in the wing root fairings of modern aeroplanes. (Image credit: Michael Pittman)

Muscular wing-body junction improved Pterosaur flight performance

An example of one of the microfossils discovered in a sample of rock recovered from the Apex Chert, a rock formation in western Australia that is among the oldest and best-preserved rock deposits in the world.

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5...

The Jeerinah Formation in Western Australia

Oxygen levels on early Earth rose, fell several times before great...

Manakacha Trackway. Credit: Stephen Rowland

Cliff collapse reveals 313-million-year-old fossil footprints in Grand Canyon National Park

Scientists theorize new origin story for Earth’s water

Human Evolution: A 24-million-year record of African plants plumbs deep past

Diluvicursor pickeringi holotype

A new species of turkey-sized dinosaur is discovered from Australia

Composite skeleton of Dodo bird to be auctioned

Stuck-in-the-mud plankton reveal ancient temperatures

Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet

A fossilized mantle of a vampyropod, a relative to the vampire squid. The ink sacis the raised structure in the center, and muscles have a striated appearance. Credit: Rowan Martindale/The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences.

Exceptional fossils may need a breath of air to form

Celebrity fossil reveals all for science

New species from the past

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