A patch of farmland in New South Wales has turned out to be one of Australia’s most remarkable fossil sites. Hidden beneath ...

But these sorts of rocks have no fossils in them. The rocks that have fossils in them are formed very slowly underwater. Water carries sediment - sand and mud – that settles on the bottom of the lake ...

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites—McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The newly identified chemical ...

The unlucky fossil bird, preserved with over 800 tiny rocks in its throat (visible as the gray mass next to the left of its neck bones). A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is ...

Ancient Australian fossils indicate that the earliest eukaryotes depended on oxygen, providing new evidence that oxygen ...

A 550-million-year-old fossil found along the Yangtze River may explain why Earth's earliest animals left almost no trace ...

How ancient bryozoans may have looked. (Zhifei Zhang) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the ...

Miners in Spain found giant reef fossils from an ancient ocean. This quarrying activity exposed a buried ecosystem. Similar discoveries in Britain also revealed ancient marine life. These fossil reefs ...