Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

High-altitude limestone layers reveal the fossilized remains of marine organisms that once thrived in the prehistoric Tethys ...

Shark teeth are everywhere once people start noticing them. They turn up in fossil shops, washed along beaches, buried inside ...

Researchers have documented India’s first evidence of a plastic-rock formation called ‘plastistone’, from Maharashtra’s ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Coasts and rocks. Liz Bonnin introduces a clip examining the geology of the Jurassic Coast in southern ...

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

Tyrannosaurs may be famous as fearsome apex predators, but new research reveals a more opportunistic—and slightly grim—side to their behavior. Using high-resolution 3D scans, a researcher identified ...

From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs for paleontologists Mountains in Montana’s Makoshika State Park, where some ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

In 2000, researchers described an odd fossil found not far from Chicago. It had a round body, finlike structures on one end and a tangle of arms. The fossil was classified as an octopus and named ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

A huge and beautifully preserved suite of fossils discovered in China has cast doubt on the idea that complex life flourished dramatically during a rapid burst of evolution known as the Cambrian ...