Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...

An examination of an aquatic, shrimplike creature that lived half a billion years ago offers insight into how arthropods with mandibles became so common. By Rebecca Dzombak About 70 percent of the ...

A popular museum is under growing pressure to cut ties with fossil giant Shell after being accused of misleading children about the climate crisis. An investigation by climate advocacy group Comms ...

Learn how fossils form through sedimentation and mineralization. Discover types like moulds, casts, and trace fossils in our guide.

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million to 506 million years ago. In this time span, most major animal groups ...