The specimen in question is an exquisite fossil of a gossamer-winged butterfly from the Isle of Wight. It is the only representative of its species ever found. Discovered in the Insect Limestone at ...

The calcium carbonate precipitated out of the water and eventually solidified into limestone. Numerous marine organisms used the dissolved calcium carbonate in the seawater to form internal skeletons ...

Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...

The team led by the University of Cambridge published their study in the journal Nature and thought that the new fossil could attest to why birds survived the mass extinction event at the end of ...