A 161 million-year-old fossil, linked to a line of extinct frog-like amphibians, is the oldest tadpole ever found.

The 237-million-year-old remains are among the oldest silesaurid fossils ever found, adding to paleontologists' understanding ...

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the ...

But because firefly remains from this period can be difficult to come by since the insects’ softer bodies don’t preserve well in the fossil record, the evolution of the beetles and their ...

As a result, the fossil record has gaps and is incomplete, and we're missing data that we need to reconstruct evolutionary history. Now, a team of sedimentologists and stratigraphers from the ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

In the new study, the team describes this well-preserved fossil tadpole. It belongs to the species Notobatrachus degiustoi and dates back about 168 to 161 million years to the Middle Jurassic. Most ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

One way we can understand the effect of climate change is to look at the geological past - millions of years ago - and the fossil record, to see what happened to organisms during periods of time in ...

Each emphasizes three key components of the record of primate evolution: history of discovery, taxonomy of the fossils, and evolution of the adaptive radiations they represent. The Primate Fossil ...

The fossilization of the tadpole's "delicate structures," like its eyes and gills, allowed for a detailed analysis of the rare find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

But because firefly remains from this period can be difficult to come by since the insects' softer bodies don't preserve well in the fossil record, the evolution of the beetles and their ...