How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

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A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

On Friday, paleontologists and crews removed dinosaur fossils from a parking lot construction site in Dinosaur National ...

Just over 512 million years ago, Earth’s life was shaken by a major extinction event, yet fossil evidence reveals it ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

The Dinosaur National Monument, which is located on the border between Colorado and Utah, was last excavated in 1924.