Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...

Beneath quiet farmland in New South Wales, researchers stumbled upon a site that defies scientific expectations. Hidden within layers of deep red, iron-rich rock, long overlooked by fossil hunters, ...

Paleontologists have revealed a "remarkable" prehistoric creature that has been "spectacularly preserved" by fool's gold—a common name for a substance called iron pyrite. The newly identified species, ...