A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, a fish chewed up and spit out some sea creatures. Unbeknownst to that fish, its rejected meal was preserved in ...

In a world that looked nothing like today’s, long before the rise of the dinosaurs or even the first trees, giant living towers stretched skyward from the Earth’s surface. Some reached heights of 26 ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where ...

In the fossil record, trees typically are preserved with only their trunks. They don't usually include any leaves to show what their canopies and overall forms may have looked like. In a new study, ...

A horseshoe crab fossil dating back more than 300million has been discovered in County Clare, marking a remarkable first for Ireland. The fossil, which is only 2cm in size, has been identified as ...

Arnau Bolet is at Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès E08193, Spain, and in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol ...