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 ...

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

A fossilised creature found in a South African roadside quarry 25 years ago has finally got an official name. The small, segmented, crustacean-like creature, dated to 444 million years ago, can now be ...

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

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 ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of ...

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 ...

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

A fossil of a dinosaur footprint has led to the discovery of a new species that once roamed B.C. near Tumbler Ridge. “When we started to see some of these unusual, clearly ankylosaur footprints ...

Now, the Trump administration is citing the case of the dire wolf as it moves to reduce federal protections under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. On Wednesday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...