New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...

An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

This week, scientists discover something in a fish fossil that might give us a hand in finding our earliest land-dwelling ancestors. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...

Joe Kchodl, popularly known as “PaleoJoe,” recently returned from a summer trip to Wyoming, where he went “fishing” with his adult daughter Jen, who's known as “PaleoJen.” Although the 50-million-year ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...