The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...
A fossilized dragonfly wing discovered in Alberta has been identified as a new species and the first from Canada’s ...
A remarkable fossil discovery in Inner Mongolia reveals Weichangiops squamosus, an ancient crustacean. This find, over 100 ...
Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...
The Crato Formation represents one of the most celebrated Early Cretaceous Konservat‐Lagerstätten, offering an unparalleled window into past ecosystems. Exceptional preservation within this formation ...
The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...
The three fossil specimens (from left to right), Avisaurus darwini, Avisaurus sp., and Magnusavis ekalakaensis, all of which are represented by a tarsometatarsus. They are all shown to scale with one ...
Introduction -- Purpose -- Geology of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation. Ash beds ; Coal seam or zone markers ; Palynology ; Palaeo-magnetostratigraphy -- Types of preservation and methods of study.