It doesn't appear dramatic at first glance. A spherical fossil discovered on dry ground in central India, one of many found ...

A fossilized dinosaur egg discovered in central India has turned out to be even stranger than it first appeared. Inside the ...

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...

As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous. But in 2017, while a Ph.D. student of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the U.K., I heard a gleeful exclamation from across the room.

From one angle, the egg appears to be nothing more than a smooth, rounded stone. (Image: He et al., J. Palaeogeogr., 2022) A rare fossil discovery in eastern China has surprised palaeontologists, ...