To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

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 ...

A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, which was long thought to be the source of the shine.

Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...

For a long time, scientists believed that parasitic relationships between marine species developed much later in Earth’s history. But new fossil evidence from Morocco suggests otherwise. A recent ...

A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils discovered at Germany’s Posidonia Shale is not the result of pyrite (aka fool’s gold ...

New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. While most fossils are permineralized "hard" tissues, ...

All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold in the case of fossils. A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators found that many of the fossils from ...

Scientists still aren’t sure what exactly prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils tell us about life before the Cambrian Explosion, but at least they now understand why we have a remarkable fossil record ...

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