Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature
Scientists believe that Earth’s earliest life included ancient forms of crinoids, or the relatives of modern starfish. Crinoid…
Boy, 11, finds 1.8 million-year-old elephant tooth on England beach
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An 11-year-old boy in England recently made an unusual beach…
South Africa cave fossils puzzle scientists after every Homo naledi sample tests female
Testing of ancient humanlike fossils from a cave system in South Africa has produced an unexpected finding: Every…
A Giant Scorpion the Size of a Coffee Table Is Forcing Scientists To Rethink Evolution
Life reconstruction of Praearcturus gigas. Credit: Franz Anthony Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may…
World’s Largest ‘Whale Graveyard’ Teems with Deep-Sea Life Including Species Unknown to Science
Images of whale remains and the community of creatures that live on them – credit, Zhou et al.…
Boy Finds 2 Million-year-old Tooth From Elephant Ancestor on Beach Walk
Mom holds Anancus arvernensis molar found on beach –SWNS An 11-year-old boy made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery after finding…
Why Evolution Stalled for Millions of Years Before Suddenly Exploding
Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for…
Scientists Confirm Giant Scorpion Over 1 Meter Long Lived 410 Million Years Ago
from the Old Red Sandstone in England and Wales reveal a giant predator of the Early Devonian: A…
Sex jumpstarted Earth’s animal biodiversity
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New Crocodile Cousin Discovered After 210 Million Years Hidden in Stone
210 million years ago, Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (left) is disturbed by Hesperosuchus agilis (right) near a Coelophysis carcass at…
Scientists Thought Alaska Fossils Were Mammoths, They Were Whales
For several decades, the story of why woolly mammoths disappeared seemed remarkably simple and unquestioned; radiocarbon-dated fossils across…
Scientists Discovered Remains of the Earliest Animals on Earth. They May Have Made a Big Mistake.
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