Why it's incredible: The forest preserves some of the oldest trees in the world. The Cairo Fossil Forest is a unique collection of 385 million-year-old trees preserved in an abandoned quarry in ...

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Learn how a 2.6-million-year-old Paranthropus jaw from Ethiopia’s Afar region is reshaping scientists’ understanding of early ...

Experts have uncovered what they believe to be a forest underneath Stanley on the Falkland Islands. Findings regarding this discovery have been published in the journal Antarctic Science. Pollen ...

Learn about the most complete Homo habilis fossil ever found, and how this fossil is changing what we know about human ...

A 112-million-year-old chironomid fly (Diptera: Nematocera) is preserved in amber from Ecuador's Genoveva quarry, representing South America's first discovery of ancient insects trapped in fossilized ...

Finding these fossils was an 'incredibly exciting moment,' according to paleobiologist Xavier Delclòs.