The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

Researchers in China achieved a milestone by directly dating a fossilized dinosaur egg at 85.9 million years old, marking a first in paleontology. Using carbonate uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating, ...

Marine fossils discovered in England’s Peak District reveal detailed life from a tropical sea that covered the region 340 ...