Flinders University researchers have taken a revealing look inside the head of one of the first animals to crawl from the ...

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On an expedition to Greenland in 1987, this University of Cambridge paleontologist unearthed remains of a creature from the Devonian Period (408-360 million years ago) that skulked around swamps on ...

About 1867, Jay Terrell was walking along the Lake Erie shore in Sheffield Lake when he noticed what appeared to be fossils in the shale cliffs above him that lined the lakeshore. They proved to be ...

Prototaxites taiti may belong to an unknown multicellular lineage. This 26-foot fossil puzzled scientists for over 165 years. Advanced analysis shows it is unlike any plant, animal, or fungus. Did our ...

Over millions of years, most living organisms suffocated in oxygen-deprived oceans. In the aftermath, modern vertebrates conquered the world. We think of mass extinctions as brief moments of havoc — ...

Most scientists think the dinosaurs — along with countless other creatures — were wiped out some 66 million years ago when a space rock slammed into Earth. But a cosmic impact isn’t the only disaster ...