Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

A CENTURY and a quarter have passed since William Smith's "Strata Identified by Organized Fossils" (1816–19), with its figures of some 160 British fossils, made the long-delayed announcement of the ...

Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

There are few bigger questions than those surrounding the origins of life. So when Nature published a study revealing the world’s oldest known microfossils, it quickly became one of the most widely ...

Scotty, the largest T. rex specimen on record, is on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada. Kumiko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 Around 66 million years ago, the iconic and ...

Led by Dr. Matthew McCurry and Dr. Michael Frese, the team identified a new fossil site in New South Wales, Australia, named McGraths Flat. It is located in the Central Tablelands, NSW, near the town ...