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

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

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

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

In a case of mistaken identity, fossils from two whales were disguised as the backbones of a woolly mammoth. The fossilized ...

For 75 years, a pair of fossils in the collection of an Alaska museum was believed to have come from a mammoth. Not so, says ...

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...

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

At first glance, this mammal looks like a horse gone terribly wrong. But, in reality, Chalicotherium is far from a botched ...

This week in science: fossilized 'mammoth' bones found to be from a completely different animal; NASA returns Space Station ...

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 ...

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