A recent study shows that marine oxygen levels were crucial to the evolution of early Paleozoic trilobite body size, ...

Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of describing it scientifically. The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

It lived in the immediate aftermath of the end Ordovician extinction event more ... This extinction wiped out about 85% of Earth’s species. The marine basin that Keurbos susanae inhabited ...

The Ordovician saw the disappearance of 60% of marine invertebrates, while the Late Devonian eliminated 70% of all species. Unlike other extinctions, such as the Cretaceous-Tertiary event caused by an ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...