A recent study published in Earth Science Reviews examines how both the shine and excellent preservation of fossils discovered at Germany’s Posidonia Shale is not the result of pyrite (aka fool’s gold ...

Trace fossils, the preserved records of biological activity, provide a unique window into the interactions between ancient organisms and their sedimentary settings. By recording behaviours such as ...

When reading about ancient history of any type one of the main sources of information comes from fossils. At first glance, it might seem like fossils are extremely common since we have thousands of ...

Paleontologists have long studied the fossilized remains of animals from the Cambrian period, a time when many major groups ...

Analysis - South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ago.