One fossil can shake up a scientist's entire theory, making them re-arrange the timeline they had for the origin of species. Then, there are the fossils that just don't make sense. They're undeniably ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Approximately 160 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs, giant marine reptiles ruled the seas. One such creature, an ...

Zygomaturus trilobus - a marsupial with no modern day comparisons that probably lived in the wetter areas of Australia, ...

A fossil found in what’s now northwestern China belonged to a microraptor, a gliding dinosaur that hunted ancient birds.

The only thing most of us know about fossils is probably from the second grade or from random TV shows over the years. In depth knowledge of all the different types of fossils has usually been ...

Is it free woolly? Scientists were flabbergasted after discovering that the mammoth backbones that had been housed in an Alaskan museum for 70 years actually belonged to a whale, per a study published ...

New fossil discoveries are reshaping scientists’ understanding of a pivotal chapter in human evolution, revealing that several human ancestor lineages lived side by side nearly 3 million years ago.

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Find out more about Body Fossils and Trace Fossils. Fossils can be categorized in two basic types: body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils help scientists learn what plants and animals looked ...