For instance, fossil evidence of wood-boring activity provides insight into early trophic relationships, revealing how interactions between insects and gymnosperms helped shape ancient forests [1].

The study of biogeography and paleoecology during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic era provides essential insights into how past ...

The now-extinct Tinderet Volcano repeatedly blanketed the area in ash, preserving it for millions of years, and today, the site hosts fossils from an array of plants and animals.

As part of the new research, scientists uncovered fossils of approximately 1,000 leaves and many vertebrates at two subsites between 2013 and 2023. The specimens included those of a new type of ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000 years old, new dating has ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...