University of California, RiversideMany experts didn’t think such tiny prehistoric fossils would ever be found. Fortunately, ...

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...

Plastic bottles, smartphones, chicken bones – and the wider debris of everyday life – are tipped to outlast human civilisation and become the defining fossils of our age.

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

The Cambrian sea was a very strange and alien place ... of these creatures to be “the world’s most important animal fossils.” With the explosion of life in Earth’s seas, the marine ...

This individual literally left its mark in the form of shark bites—and a tooth lodged in the sea cow’s neck. The irregular distribution of the bites on the fossils indicated to the team that ...

Now, in a study published today (July 28) in Nature, Elizabeth Turner, a geologist at Laurentian University in Canada, identified structures in 890-million-year-old fossils of organisms similar to ...

Other fossilised signs of a plant or animal are called trace fossils. Dinosaur trace fossils include footprints ... This is because they lived in the sea, where sand or mud could bury their remains ...

The animal only lived in one of these chambers and used the other spaces to help it ... If you look in chalk rock you might find lumps of flint that have sea urchin fossils in them. And when you are ...

Reaching up to 300m, Tasmania's sea cliffs are some of the highest in ... Within this cave system fossils up to 300 million years old can be found that hold clues about the formation of Tasmania.

For example, rocks that once formed the seafloor might be forced up to form a mountain range. This means that you can sometimes find the fossils of sea creatures at the peak of a mountain.