Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Sul Ross students and professors collect a fossil from a giant dinosaur at a Texas national park. Photo from Sul Ross ... the “giant” dinosaur have been found in the Big Bend before, but ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found ... History photo Hoffman believes waves from the storm helped scour some of the sand away from the shale.

Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our ... Fiorentino explained. The fossil also shows the ant’s ability to hide, or crypsis, has been a survival strategy for ...

The fossil also shows the ant’s ability to hide ... Gianpiero Fiorentino So far, the nine known species of dirt ants had only been found in rainforests from Costa Rica to southern Brazil ...