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Researchers may have uncovered the reason why some of Earth’s earliest animals were commonly preserved as fossils – even though they were essentially...

Scientists have discovered several 518-million-year-old fossils that reshape the origins of the group of animals that contains starfish, and found...

One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new major site of its kind...

Tiny, invisible swirls and twirls – not much bigger than a coin – deep below the ocean’s surface are silently shaping some of the biggest forces...

The way that Earth’s first animals reproduced held back life’s diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of...

Researchers have identified a ‘tipping point’ about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and...