The fossil record documents the history of life, but the reliability of that record has often been questioned. Spatiotemporal variability in sedimentary rock volume, sampling and research effort ...

Scientists have found the oldest evidence for animals in the fossil record. The researchers examined sedimentary rocks in south Oman, and found an anomalously high amount of steroids that date back to ...

Hominid fossils dating to 1.8 million years ago have been found in Dmanisi, Georgia. Researchers are using computers to find more fossils in the region. Image courtesy of Wikicommons Luck plays a big ...

Tara Djokic and co-authors received funding for this research from the Etheridge family descendants; Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian Museum Trust; and Australian Research Council (ARC ...

Trace fossils, the preserved records of biological activity, provide a unique window into the interactions between ancient organisms and their sedimentary settings. By recording behaviours such as ...

Feb. 12 (UPI) --New fossil evidence recovered from Gabon suggests organisms were mobile as early as 2.1 billion years ago. The next oldest evidence of motility dates to 570 million years ago. Several ...

Say an EKG machine is monitoring your heart, when it suddenly flatlines. You’d be keenly interested to know whether your heart had stopped or the machine had simply gone on the fritz. Paleontologists ...

On 2 March 2017, the journal Nature published a paper describing what its authors argue could be the earliest evidence of life on Earth: Here we describe putative fossilized microorganisms that are at ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat . It dates back between 11 ...