The fossil is from a small individual, just 103 centimeters (3.4 feet) high and weighing 27 kilograms (60 pounds). There’s always a danger with fossils of mistaking a child’s bone for an adult ...

If organisms once dwelled in the bygone Martian oceans, they might have left behind tiny fossils in certain minerals. Now, researchers have found a technique to identify evidence of such ...

This is based on the knowledge that some modern fishes such as coelacanths and sharks have spiral-shaped intestines. It is difficult to find out exactly what animal produced a now-coprolite, however, ...