The fossil record of bioerosion

Study uncovers hidden gills and fish-like teeth in 345-million-year-old fossil, challenging ideas about the origins of reptiles.

Despite the abundance of dinosaur footprints from the Middle Jurassic Cleveland Basin of Yorkshire, UK, examples of footprints indicating two or more different species inhabiting a particular site and...

Fingertips of Suriname toads are hypersensitive motion detectors, new study reveals

The Mazon Creek fossil assemblage has provided the earliest fossil records of several important early tetrapod lineages, including the oldest dissorophoid temnospondyl, Amphibamus grandiceps. Recen...

Fossils are among the principal sources for understanding the history of life through ‘Deep Time’ and can inform projections of biotic responses to environmental change. Despite a widespread recognit...

Dinosaur poop—possibly from a juvenile T. rex or Nanotyrannus—containing feathers, bone fragments, and fish scales provides a look at a Cretaceous-era food web.