Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

The growth and lifespan of Parvancorina minchami, small anchor-shaped animals that lived on the seafloor about 550 million ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Genetic evidence suggests that the reptiles somehow managed millions of years ago to make an ocean crossing from North ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a leading palaeontologist and naturalist from Henley who has died. Richard Fortey passed away at ...

Scientists uncovered a 149-million-year-old bird fossil in southeastern China with unexpectedly modern traits they believe could rewrite the evolutionary history of birds. The recently ...

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It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists. Scientists say the snail darter, whose ...

Now, an intriguing new study on fossils suggests we might be looking in the wrong places for their earliest ancestors. While we’ve found countless dinosaur fossils in places like Argentina and ...