A Pennsylvania lawmaker says she will soon propose a bill that would change Pennsylvania’s state fossil. The Pennsylvania ...

The unearthing of a 350 million-year-old tree fossil has opened the door to plants of the past. Five of these fossils were ...

A routine fossil-hunting trip turned into a groundbreaking discovery for a pair of researchers when they stumbled upon a rare ...

Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period, part of the Paleozoic era, a rich variety of marine ... known mainly from the tiny fossil teeth they left behind. The few complete fossils that have ...

The largest extinction events define a change in era. The end of the Paleozoic and beginning of the Mesozoic 251 ... We suggest using a threefold approach to connect with the investigations in the ...

The names Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic all describe the types of fossils that have been found relating to those periods. In the Mesozoic Era, there are fossils that represent both extinct ...

3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense ... which left a huge number of fossils. Trilobites had flattened, segmented, plated bodies that helped to ...

Marrellomorphs are one of the rarest arthropod groups in the world. The discovery of a new fossil sheds light on this enigmatic creature.

Lake Champlain's Isle La Motte is rich in marine fossils, some of which are 450 million years old. Robert Lyons Nelson Fisk, who was Vermont's lieutenant governor from 1896 to 1898, was also the ...