Fossils tell us the world over about life on Earth before humans existed — they can help us understand what the climate was like, what creatures lived on the planet, and what caused significant ...

Fossils tell amazing stories and inspire them, too -- just think of this summer's 'Jurassic World' blockbuster. But because some of the processes that preserve fossils are not well understood ...

Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world. There is one remarkable spot in the south of France, where fossils of spiders ...

Fossils Being Formed Today Will Show How Humans Disrupted Life On Earth Fossils are an essential record of life on Earth that demonstrate long periods of stability, punctuated by episodes of rapid ...

The spiders were coated in microalgae, which produced a substance that protected the 22.5 million-year-old creepy-crawlies from the ravages of time.

You will learn about how one fossil fuel formed thousands of feet below parts of the US. Fossil fuels formed millions of years ago. Different kinds of coals, oils and natural gases formed as dead ...

What is an index fossil? Index fossils are used to work out the age of sedimentary rocks. They’re chosen on the basis of being very common fossils that are found only in rocks laid down in a narrow ...

Earth once hosted more than 10,000 species of these ancient marine predators. Find out how they lived, when they vanished, and how much we know about them today.

When we think of fossils it is usually of dinosaurs, or perhaps the beautiful spiral shape of an ammonite picked up on a beach during a summer holiday. We see fossils as ancient relics of the deep ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record. Their soft external skeletons don’t typically preserve well — except at a few exceptional sites around the world ...

World News Secret of how rare spider fossils formed has been unlocked by scientists Spiders are not well represented in the fossil record.