Near the top of the world’s highest peak, climbers sometimes spot seashells and delicate crinoid stems locked inside pale limestone, a jarring sight in the thin, frozen air. Those fossils formed on an ...

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...

Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot in ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

Before leaving on a fossil-hunting trip for a summer 2021 field paleontology class, a Montana State University junior made an ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists working at NASA recently made an important and striking discovery that could teach humanity a lot about the evolution of galaxies. According to a new report by NASA's ...

NorthWest Montana Fossils owners Aamon Jaeger and Chantel Ibach are pictured outside their Whitefish home on Aug. 14. Jaeger holds a Hypacrosaurus vertebrae and Ibach holds a Hypacrosaurus humerus.

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Their soft external ...