Fossils are rare because their formation and discovery depend on chains of ecological and geological events that occur over deep time. Only a small fraction of the primates that have ever lived ...

Or perhaps it missed again and moved on. This glimpse into prehistory is possible thanks to two tiny fossil footprints and the dogged work of an undergraduate intern at John Day Fossil Beds ...

MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--A fossil believed to be the bones of the extinct marine mammal Paleoparadoxia was found in the Tokigawa river here on June 10. The Mizunami Fossil Museum, the city’s ...