Unfortunately, we can’t yet be sure these microfossils are what they look like, but on the surface they make it look like ...

This grass spikelet from the middle Cretaceous is about 100 million years old, preserved in amber as the earliest fossil ever found of the evolution of grass, and is covered on its tip by the ...

Xiaophis myanmarensis snakes recently emerged from their eggs, on the floor of the amber-producing forest of Myanmar (99 million years ago). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the ...

About 38 million years ago, three snakes died while huddled together in what is now Wyoming. For decades, the identity of the ...

Associated Press (AP) reported that the specimen is believed to be one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs, dating from 233 ...

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that ... tar (like the famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles), or amber, in which ancient insects have been found, wonderfully preserved.

The amber, or fossilized tree resin, holds the oldest and only described pair of ... saw the amber in an online fossil shop ...

One of the oldest dinosaur fossils has been revealed after a spell of heavy rains in Brazil, and researchers are hopeful for ...

This, so far, oldest and only-described fossil of an Electrotermes ... affinis pair embedded in the amber, "identifying the species was actually not easy, because there were bubbles in front ...

When the fossil’s container stored at the Czech National Museum was examined for repacking in 2011, it turned out to be “the world's oldest fossilized large land plant.” An academic paper on ...