Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...
A recent paper in Nature details what scientists found at the Huayuan biota: Here we report the Huayuan biota — a lower ...
Scientists discover 97-million-year-old magnetic fossils that reveal how ancient animals used Earth’s magnetic field as a ...
Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...
Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil ...
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...
They are known as enormous magnetofossils and are significantly larger than the magnetic particles produced by bacteria today ...
An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.
Learn how Miocene fossils from the Mojave Desert reveal that pronghorn running adaptations developed long before high-speed cheetahs appeared in North America.
In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.
A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.