The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

In a groundbreaking find, researchers have discovered traces of ancient microbes in an unexpected location. This stunning revelation could change how we understand the origins of life on Earth. The ...

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

This ‘living fossil' sat on the ocean floor for years before anyone realized what it really was.

Dwarfing every living thing around them millions of years ago, Prototaxites have long defied scientific classification ...

A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of ...

Scientists in South Korea identified Acanthochitona feroxa, a new chiton species long mistaken for a nearly identical mollusk.