You don't have to do fieldwork to make the next great scientific discovery. Sometimes, amazing finds are hiding right under ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn ... MORE: Well-preserved remains of saber-toothed kitten found frozen in Russian tundra, researchers say Researchers from ...

Mummified fossils are also essentially unaltered. Some mummified fossils include mammoths found frozen in the arctic permafrost, which are preserved by the cold just as a freezer preserves food. In ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

Fossilized soft tissue is exceptionally rare in plesiosaur fossils. The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The ...

Fossil evidence reveals that palm trees once thrived in the Canadian Arctic, challenging everything we know about Earth's ...

This, so far, oldest and only-described fossil of an Electrotermes ... Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery of this rare fossil was a ...

The discovery of both of these fossils in Antarctica also suggests that the now-frozen continent could have been a safe haven of sorts—particularly for early modern birds—as the ravages of the ...