ANY RECREATIONAL DRUGS. A NEW EXHIBIT IS OPEN AT THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE. IT IS CALLED ANCIENT LIFE AND SHOWCASES SOME OF NEW MEXICO’S OLDEST LIFE FORMS. I BEGAN ...

Tiny honeycomb-like colonies from southern China have opened a long-running gap in the story of animal life. For decades, ...

Brazilian paleobotany has just solved an enigma: the redefinition of a fossil plant described decades ago in southern Brazil and the creation of a new genus, Franscinella, to accommodate the species ...

Clay, oil, and deep time do not usually leave much behind. Skin disappears. Cartilage collapses. Proteins break apart. Yet a small reptile that lived about 289 million years ago has done something ...

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land. By Asher Elbein Some 280 million years ...

Materials are from the Charles Walcott Collection, and include field notes, photographs, sketches and stratagraphic sections detailing Walcott's observations and work in geology and paleontology, ...

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world. Pillow-shaped impressions, quilted fronds and ribbed disks sat in museum drawers, ...

The fossil, found by Jay Anderson in a Steele County gravel pit, was identified as belonging to the genus Endoceras, from the Paleozoic Era. Michael Kjelland (left), a professor from Mayville State ...