Fossil Friday
Fossil Friday: a fossilized school of fish
A common fish behavior evolved at least 50 million years ago.
Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber
It's nearly 100 million years old.
Fossil Friday: newly-discovered Callichimaera perplexa is an adorable, weird crab
How is it possible for something with those eyes to ever go extinct? How? Why?!
Fossil Friday: massive, ancient African carnivore found in a drawer in Kenya
It pays to stick your nose in museum drawers!
Fossil Friday: Jurassic crocodile shows us how the scaly killers came to be
The team says it looked more like a dolphin than a crocodile.
Largest pterosaur jaw ever found, recognized three decades after discovery in Transylvania
What's with the long face?
10 of the Weirdest Prehistoric Creatures
Eons ago, many millennia before written history, bizarre animals roamed the Earth.
Beautifully preserved fossil reveals a new 430-million-year old crustacean species, gets named in honor of Sir Attenborough’s 90th birthday
Sir Attenborough really liked the name.
#FossilFriday: 34-million-year old wasp fossil
It's as beautiful as it likely was annoying.
Paleontologists find ‘incredibly rare’ 52 million year-old fossilized berry
Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.
Fossil Friday: the first dino brain (we’ve ever found)
We didn't even think it was possible to find one up to now.
Fossil Friday: the earliest known shells from 809 million years ago
Shifting ocean chemistry and predatory pressure made organisms bunker up for the first time.
Fossil Friday: the bug inside the lizard inside the snake
Always go for a meal before you fossilize.
#FossilFriday: opalized belemnite
Belemnites were extinct cephalopods with a squid-like body.
Fossil Friday: Sciurumimus albersdoerferi, the single-fossil theropod
There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.
#FossilFriday: Geode Fossil
Photo by James St. John. This is a beautiful geodized fossil - a sea snail fossil filled up by a yellowish calcite geode. The fossil is part...
