Soft tissue from a crinoid is offering paleontologists a direct look at some of Earth’s earliest coral reefs. Of all the ...

"Preservation like this is truly one in a million." For years, a small Canadian museum that was started by amateur ...

We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of "living fossils" reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the ...

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called crinoids, resembling stalked sea flowers, were among the first creatures to ...

Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Oklahoma paleontologists recently discovered a 450-million-year-old fossilized soft tissue from a species related to ...

PHILADELPHIA — Ohio State University geologists have isolated complex organic molecules from 350-million-year-old fossil sea creatures — the oldest such molecules yet found. The molecules may have ...

The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, ...

Dr. Lena Cole, a paleontologist at the University of Oklahoma and assistant curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, says soft tissue preservation is ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. When Charles Darwin published “On the Origin of ...

A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth's earliest reef animals lived ...