Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Marine fossils discovered in England’s Peak District reveal detailed life from a tropical sea that covered the region 340 ...

The display includes a lab in which visitors can interact with researchers.