Fossils

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...

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...

The evolution of tiny arms in several groups of meat-eating dinosaurs was likely driven by the development of strong, powerful heads, which were used...

The earliest evidence of an internal ‘GPS’ system in an animal has been identified by researchers, which could help explain how some modern birds and...