65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world's best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Dinosaurs Scientists uncover new secrets of rare feathered fossil showing early bird evolution Study using UV light and CT scans shows the 150 million-year-old specimen had specialized flight feathers ...

The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province, southern China, a region world-renowned for its remarkably preserved snapshots of ...

The fossils here are super rare: you can dig and split shale for days and not find a single fossil! But we know there are some in there because of discoveries made previously. I found two specimens.

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

Life Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China’s Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

The new findings potentially give scientists a “ready-made trove of fossil candidates” to explore. By Michael Natale Published: Feb 19, 2025 9:30 AM EST Save Article wwing // Getty Images ...

He published numerous and important scientific papers on this group of fossils, culminating in the Monograph of British Graptolites alongside Ethel Shakespear, née Wood (1871–1945) and Gertrude Elles ...

Our research at the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, has shown, based on a refined division and correlation of the ...