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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A geology field trip will take participants into a historic coal mine and a fossil site on Saturday, May 3, led by geologist ...

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 ...

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 ...