Soft tissue from a crinoid is offering paleontologists a direct look at some of Earth’s earliest coral reefs. Of all the ...

"Preservation like this is truly one in a million." For years, a small Canadian museum that was started by amateur ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues ...

This week, researchers reported finding nanoplastics in Antarctic soils for the first time, suggesting they were delivered ...

University of Oklahoma paleontologists recently discovered a 450-million-year-old fossilized soft tissue from a species related to the starfish, a finding that is one of two known examples of this ...

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of "living fossils" reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...

PHILADELPHIA — Ohio State University geologists have isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures — the oldest such molecules yet found. The molecules may have ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. When Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of ...

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...