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

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world.

Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

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

Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A dinosaur unlike any other, adorned with an extraordinary array of armour and spikes – some reaching a metre in length – roamed a coastal floodplain in what is now Morocco approximately 165 million ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

The specimen was found at Mazon Creek fossil beds, a site known for its beautifully preserved animals and plants.