Sometimes there is a method to my development of an idea for a column. Sometimes I’m scrolling through news items and see the words “Flying squirrels the size of cats.” Well that’s something I need to ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a leading palaeontologist and naturalist from Henley who has died. Richard Fortey passed away at ...

A video on X of people collecting marine fossils has apparently caused some confusion, as they are collecting their ancient ...

A rare and stunning discovery in New York State has unveiled a 450-million-year-old fossil that provides valuable insights ...

That's a pretty good quality to have when you're the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison — and fossils are literally your job. Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, ...

You can’t help but love Fossil Daddy, the queer paleontological father figure who has undoubtedly come up in your feed over ...

Tucson becomes a global stage for Earth’s most breathtaking treasures at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. But beyond the dazzling opals and ancient fossils lies something deeper — an invitation to ...

In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global ... movable compound eyes and dorsally, trilobite-like sessile ones.

Fossils don't get much older than trilobites, extinct marine arthropods that date back to a time before animals had backbones and even before there were any plants on land. They were already well ...