Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a ...

At Agate Fossil Beds National Monument near the town of Harrison, Nebraska, visitors can view in the outcropping a curious spiral-shaped fossil called Daimonelix, also known as Devil's Corkscrew.

A budding palaeontologist has dug up fossils in his garden dating back 140 million years.Elliott, seven, moved into his new home in Matlock, Derbyshire, three months ago.During work in the front ...

It is difficult to find out exactly what animal produced a now-coprolite, however, as fossils of the animal's body are not usually found in the same places as the fossil faeces. It is easier to tell ...

POCATELLO - The Idaho Museum of Natural History has added to its already impressive collection of prehistoric shark fossils. The newest fossil is a spiral of teeth from a Helicoprion - a ...

A 3D model of a 407-million-year-old plant fossil has overturned thinking on the evolution of leaves. The research has also led to fresh insights about spectacular patterns found in plants.

Most land plants living today have spiral patterns involving the famous Fibonacci sequence of numbers. But an extinct, ancient plant did not.

An ancient sea predator had a spiraling whorl of teeth that acted as a lethal slicing tool, according to new scans of a mysterious fossil. Our teeth evolved from fish 'body armor' over 460 million ...

Regulator sets exit fee for households seeking to quit gas as they electrify, and allows networks to impose higher fixed charges to recoup investments in face of death spiral.

EV sales are all well and good, but the real end goal is keeping carbon in the ground. Norway shows how this could happen.

Years of research on the evolution of ancient life including the dinosaurs have been questioned after a fatal flaw in the way fossil data is analysed was exposed. (Phys.org)—Using CAT scans and ...

An ancient sea predator had a spiraling whorl of teeth that acted as a lethal slicing tool, according to new scans of a mysterious fossil.