Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

This video explores five animals known only from fossils before being discovered alive in the modern world. Each segment ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

A new study by the University of Minnesota challenges previous classifications paleontologists use to determine how the ...

A study of fossil bones shows Tyrannosaurus rex kept growing until around age 40, challenging long-held ideas about dinosaur ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities challenges previous classifications paleontologists use ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

This ancient, leg-bearing snake is rewriting the story of how serpents slithered, and sometimes walked, their way through ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Museum scientists have identified and described an extinct rhinoceros species from Canada’s High Arctic. Researchers at the ...

Over the past half century, researchers have established that birds evolved from dinosaurs: specifically, the theropods, the ...

Modern rock wallabies seem to survive by sticking together in small areas, but fossils show they need to travel.