A new study has unveiled that a famous 280-million-year-old fossil may not be all it seemed. Discovered in 1931, the fossil was long believed to represent ancient soft tissues of a reptile. But upon ...

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Millions of years before the first trees grew their canopies and the earliest insects buzzed, a strange organism sprouted from the ... and not a fungus — but something entirely different. The fossil ...

March 25 – Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature ...

Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our ...

An illustration shows what Duonychus tsogtbaatari might have looked like. Unlike its therizinosaur brethren, the new species had only two claws instead of three. When Hokkaido University ...

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered ...

Dinosaurs' Apparent Decline Prior to Asteroid May Be Due to Poor Fossil Record Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million ...

Although these fossils were smaller than their towering ... The largest tubes had thick walls and strange ring-like patterns, unlike anything seen in fungi today. In known fungi, rings appear ...

We’re not teaching AI to think—we’re teaching it to replay our past in stunning detail, without knowing what any of it means.