Fukuoka, 75, has finally published an illustrated encyclopedia that details more than 300 fossils of ammonites and other prehistoric creatures found on the island. It features copperplate images ...

Australian National UniversityThe Dickinsonia fossil. A decades-long debate over a 558 million-year-old fossil has now been settled after scientists were able to identify it as one of the Earth ...

Imagine a lush and vibrant rainforest teeming with life, with various insects crawling and flying around, and abundant aquatic fauna. This is what the now cool, temperate Central Tablelands in ...

Archaeopteryx specimens have, “maybe more than any other fossil, changed the way that we see the world,” said Jingmai O’Connor, a paleontologist at the Field Museum in Chicago. Over 164 ...

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