fossil

A ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ dinosaur may be the missing link between two major dinosaur groups, plugging what was previously a big gap between them...

Newly-described fossil shows how brittle stars evolved in response to pressure from predators, and how an ‘evolutionary hangover’ managed to escape...

An international group of researchers has dated a large volcanic eruption in Iceland to within a few months. The eruption, which is the oldest...

A project exploring the role of East Africa in the evolution of modern humans has amassed the largest and most diverse collection of prehistoric bone...

Researchers have identified the first known example of fossilised brain tissue in a dinosaur from Sussex. The tissues resemble those seen in modern...

The earliest example of an organism living on land – an early type of fungus – has been identified. The organism, from 440 million years ago, likely...

Javier Ortega-Hernández (Department of Zoology) discusses what the discovery of the earliest known fossilised nervous system could tell us about...

A new study of 565 million-year-old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth – possibly some of the first animals to...