Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one of Earth's ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

The prototaxites fossil, which is about 410 million years old, was found near the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire.

Delving into the fascinating world of paleontology, we uncover the stories of species that lived through Earth’s mass extinctions. These hardy survivors reveal much about the nature of life on Earth ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Now, a breakthrough by Chinese researchers has filled this gap by discovering a top-tier soft-bodied fossil deposit in Hunan province's Huayuan county — dating shortly after the Sinsk event. This ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

In the first of a new series, curator Dr Neil Adams shares the stories and science of the fossil mammal collection.

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...