Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

An ancient buglike sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a carapace that wrapped around its body swam upside down and looked like a taco — but this taco could bite back. Newfound fossils of the ...

A student discovers the first dragonfly fossil from the age of the dinosaurs in Canada. Cordualadensa acorni lived 75 million ...

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its fossilized ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

(Reuters) - During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic proportions. One notable example was Arthropleura, the biggest ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

Finding additional fossils could clarify the function of this structure, and may help to flesh out other unusual details about Odaraia, such as the existence of three small eyes between the two bigger ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

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