The fossil is now back at the SRSU paleontology lab, where students and researchers are carefully studying it, along with associated vertebrae previously collected from the same quarry.

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was found in South Africa's Soom Shale. Unusually, it's preserved inside ...

Discovered 25 years ago, a 444-million-year-old marine arthropod fossil stumped paleontologists, as they couldn’t identify its exact species. Sarah Gabbot, who originally discovered the specimen ...

According to CrisPR, the tooth from Sheridan Pit in northwestern Ohio was one of two pieces of dire wolf fossils Colossal Biosciences used to obtain dire wolf DNA. The other piece was from a ...

When the first Prototaxites fossil was unearthed in 1843, it was mistaken for an ancient rotting conifer. But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing ...

They found two protein variants known to be specific to Denisovans—enough to “confidently identify” the fossil, according to Janet Kelso, a computational biologist at the Max Planck ...

A new species of fossil from 444 million years ago that has perfectly preserved insides has been affectionately named "Sue" after its discoverer's mom. The result of 25 years of work by a ...

Dr. Chris Shelton and student Kolby Dooling unearthed a rare, well-preserved ammonite fossil at a site in Oklahoma, and it wasn’t an ordinary fossil. This particular find shimmered with the ...

Cutting down on the production of virgin plastics is essential, campaigners say, in the face of such low reuse rates. Global plastic recycling rates are now stuck at under 10 per cent, a ...

While “there’s a lot of room for improvement with metals mining,” said Julie Klinger, a mineral supply chains expert at the University of Delaware, “look at the devastation that fossil fue ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years. A new species of fossil ...