Tiny fossils trapped in amber have revealed a previously unknown creature that lived 30 million years ago that scientists are calling the "mold pig." Researchers say the fossil suggests a new family, ...
A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...
Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...
A peculiar cluster of fossils was retrieved from the Green River Formation in Utah back in 1969 – the 47-million-year-old ...
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