A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

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 ...

Welcome to Falling Waters State Park in Chipley, where Florida’s tallest waterfall plunges 73 dramatic feet into a cylindrical limestone sinkhole, then vanishes completely underground like nature’s ...

Grooves in rock formations of Jaisalmer are believed to be trails of marine worms that once wriggled along ocean floor, says ...

A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian explosion—the dramatic burst of diverse animal life—might have actually started millions of years earlier than we thought. By analyzing ancient ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Fossils of the lizard-shaped animal itself were first found in 1876 near Tarkastad in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. Since then, it’s been found in Brazil and Antarctica.

From the layering of the burrows we noticed that these small reptiles re-used abandoned burrows as well as digging new burrows in the same place for several decades. Over this long period, the number ...