The specimen also followed an unusual path into the scientific record.

A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of animal disease in a Late Carboniferous swamp—some 50 to 70 million years ...

A remarkably preserved skull bone from a 320-million-year-old coelacanth, one of Earth's rarest prehistoric fish, has been ...

Natalie and I traveled to Alabama in search of 320-million-year-old plant fossils preserved from an ancient Carboniferous rainforest. After hours of splitting rocks and carefully following fossil ...

A group of fossil hunters travels into rural Alabama to search for calamites, an extinct tree-like relative of modern ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A set of rare fossils has revealed a previously unknown and "absolutely ...

A captivating new species of arachnid from the late Carboniferous period is introduced in a new article published in the Journal of Paleontology. Many people harbor the false belief that most of the ...

Ever stumbled upon a huge fossil on your holiday? That’s what happened to me and two friends in January 2018, on a beach in Howick in the north of England, while on a geological road-trip across ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A fossil of a strange, squishy creature with a toothy tongue inside its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of Tanyka amnicola was discovered at the edge of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It has an unusual twisted jaw with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The specimen is made up of multiple articulated exoskeleton ...

Ever stumbled upon a huge fossil on your holiday? That's what happened to me and two friends in January 2018, on a beach in Howick in the north of England,while on a geological road-trip across ...