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 ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

Harvey, Austin. "Scientists May Have Identified A New Form Of Life That’s Neither Plant Nor Fungus." AllThatsInteresting.com, January 23, 2026, ...

A fresh analysis of a fossil found almost 50 years ago reveals a newly described genus named for its "manipulating claw" ...

The peculiar Cambrian object known as Brooksella, studied for more than a century, may never have been a fossil at all. New research suggests it could simply be a very unusual rock formed by natural ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any animal to get preserved with exceptional detail in sandstones, which are ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

These “total monsters of fishes” are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest living relatives: the big-eyed ratfish of the deep sea Strange fossils ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up for well over a century, but every so often something turns up inside them that throws everyone a bit. You expect bones, maybe teeth, maybe the odd imprint. In other ...

The specimen was found at Mazon Creek fossil beds, a site known for its beautifully preserved animals and plants.