An artistic rendering shows the mysterious animal, which researchers now say was a nautilus relative, in its prehistoric environment. University of Reading For more than a decade, an imposter may have ...

A famous 300-million-year-old fossil that was thought to be the world's oldest octopus—even featuring in the Guinness Book of Records—has turned out to be something else altogether. In what amounts to ...

Oil seep hydrocarbons and oxygen-free mud protected not only bones but also delicate tissues such as skin and cartilage.

The discovery of a collection of about 700 fossils known as the Jiangchuan Biota gives scientists a better understanding of ...

Rare 450-million-year-old fossil, Paleocanna tentaculum, that provides a clearer link between ancient cnidarians and modern ...

Making and breaking records Record exec Clive Davis. Don’t know him, then you’ve been under a fossil 600 years. So I asked ...

The south coast of South Africa's Western Cape province is a rich source of fossil tracks and traces—clues suggesting what ...

(CN) — Complex animal life may have emerged on Earth further back in the past than previously thought, according to scientists who recently found intricate fossils that push the record into a more ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

Green leader Zack Polanski is in Scotland today campaigning ahead of the Holyrood election. While the charismatic politician ...

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs.

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, Miller describes the story of David Starr Jordan, who named and described over 2 ...