They stopped at Kentucky road cuts searching for Ordovician fossils from a time when the area was underwater. At first, the finds looked like ordinary shell fossils scattered through the rock. Then ...

Tiny plankton shells used to reconstruct past polar ocean temperatures may contain two different chemical stories, a new ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Shell’s profits have climbed to $14 billion for the first half of 2024 after its ...

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common. By Rebecca Dzombak About 70 percent of the ...

In the 1990s, paleontologists exploring dinosaur‑rich badlands in the Zuni Basin of western New Mexico uncovered a turtle ...

New and exciting fossils emerge into the light of day on the Isle of Wight and the Jurassic Coast.