A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has opened a new window into one of the most fascinating chapters in Earth’s ...

Paleontologists from the Inland Northwest gathered to share their experiences with fossils and how they share stories about ...

Scientists at MIT have uncovered compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals. Chemical fossils ...

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemical fossils in rocks, researchers identified ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands ...

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Scientists are uncovering a surprising chapter in the Grand Canyon’s history: a meteor may have struck the region millions of years ago. Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth during the Paleozoic era, ...

With C30 and C31 sterols now validated as biomarkers of ancient sponges, the team plans to expand their search to other ...

The Isle of Skye holds the key to ancient species. From the Elgol dinosaur to the Krusatodon or the world’s largest pterosaur fossil from the Jurassic period, fossils found here have shaped our ...