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 ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...