Buried in Australia's so-called dead heart, a trove of exceptional fossils, including those of trapdoor spiders, giant ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the ...

An international team of geologists and paleontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ...

Researchers have named an ancient fossil that was discovered at a park in Leicestershire. Charnia brasieri, which was found at Bradgate Park, would have lived on the ancient seafloor about 560 million ...

In amber some 99 million years old, LMU researchers have discovered the oldest known mosquito larva. The Cretaceous fossil comes from the Kachin region in Myanmar and was preserved in excellent ...

Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their fossils. But new research may bring scientists closer to identifying the sex of one group ...