A multidisciplinary team of researchers, including archaeologists, have analyzed the DNA of fish remains from Roman fish ...

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Newfound fossils demonstrate that the dinosaur's tail was well suited for swimming—bolstering the case that Spinosaurus spent much of its time in the water. JASON TREAT, NG STAFF; MESA SCHUMACHER.

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

A 15-million-year-old fish fossil discovered in Australia reveals an astonishing glimpse into the past.

A Miocene fish fossil with soft tissue and intact pigmentation has been discovered in New South Wales, revealing prehistoric ecology.

But hard evidence remained elusive. Until now, the oldest known lepidopteran fossils dated back only to 201 million years ago, leaving a frustrating 40-million-year gap in the record.

Foraminiferan fossils allow researchers to plot foraminifera diversity through time. The catastrophic events marking the Cretaceous-Paleogene and Eocene-Oligocene boundaries caused dramatic drops in ...

Tapirs are often called “living fossils” because they have changed very little since the Eocene Epoch, which was between 56 ...