A newly identified fossil discovered in the ancient shale of South Africa, has stunned paleontologists with its rare ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

The rich fossil repository known as the Burgess Shale was first discovered a century ago. Siobhan Roberts The fossil-hunting expedition began with a lung-busting hike, accompanied by an incessant ...

Imagine stumbling upon a hidden vault that preserves whispers from a world over half a billion years ago—a time when life on ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and ...

The discovery of the Burgess Shale fossils, high on a mountainside in the Canadian Rockies, is shrouded in legend. It was late August 1909, and an expedition led by the Smithsonian’s longtime ...

Fossils from the Fezouata Shale. From left to right, a non-mineralized arthropod (Marrellomorpha), a palaeoscolecid worm and a trilobites Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

He was on the lookout for other exposed fossils and petrified wood along the beach when he decided to sit down and rest. “[I] looked over and there’s an entire whale just exposed in the shale,” he ...

Unlike trilobites, concilitergans lacked calcified exoskeletons, so their remains only fossilized under exceptional conditions -- like those in the 508-million-year-old Burgess Shale of Canada ...

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History photo Hoffman believes waves from the storm helped scour some of the sand away from the shale. Excavating the fossil from the beach was a complicated ...