Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

A peculiar spiny fossil, once thought to represent one of the earliest mollusks, has now been conclusively reclassified by ...

Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of ...

A 113-million-year-old fossil discovered in Brazil has shattered records, marking the oldest known ant specimen ever ...