A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. It's a rare find, because juvenile turtles' shells are ...

The mad scientists at Jurassic Park (later Jurassic World) were no strangers to hybrid organisms. Their earliest dinosaurs were necessarily genetic mashups, using modern amphibian DNA to fill in the ...

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An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A study of fossil sites in Australia has revealed "exquisitely ...

Some new developments have been noted in a fossil older than a dinosaur. For the study, researchers evaluated a fossil discovered in Brazil, which was explained in detail within the journal Review of ...

Researchers from the Natural History Museum and Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University (SLCU) have identified a new species of ancient symbiotic fungus preserved within a 407-million-year-old ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants were minor players in Earth's forests until dinosaurs disappeared 66 million ...

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a Colombian priest named Padre Gustavo Huertas collected rocks and fossils near a town called Villa de Levya. Two of the specimens he found were small, round rocks ...