The unearthing of three 220m-year-old fossils in China has solved the enduring mystery of how the turtle got its shell. The ancient remains are the first evidence palaeontologists have of a species of ...

A collection of fossil shells from marine snails and clams is challenging a theory that says the world’s deadliest mass extinction was accompanied by severe ocean acidification. Instead of showing ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

The almost-complete fossil dates back 228 million years and is bigger than a double bed. It was discovered in the Guizhou province of south west China Dr Nicholas Fraser, keeper of natural sciences at ...

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth more than 65 million years ago, and paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters are still unearthing traces of them today. The minerals in fossilized eggs and shell fragments ...

Researchers reanalyzed a Diplomoceras maximum specimen, focusing on the carbon and oxygen isotopes along a section of the tail that showed repeating chemical signatures. The signatures are said to ...

The Philippines is shell-ebrating after it seized more than 150 tons of fossilized giant clams Friday worth nearly $25 million. As part of a joint operation, the Philippine coast guard found the ...

A fossilized dinosaur egg containing a second inside has been unearthed in central India, the first confirmed case of an ovum ...

Scientists have found new evidence confirming that turtles once lived without shells. The almost-complete fossil dates back 228 million years and is bigger than a double bed. It was discovered in the ...