Research that reveals what lies at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean -- the Mariana Trench

Unique oil-eating bacteria found in world’s deepest ocean trench, Mariana Trench

dinosaur skeleton

Perfectly preserved dinosaur skin found in Korea

mammoth

Woolly mammoths and Neanderthals may have shared genetic traits

foraminifera

Evolution imposes ‘speed limit’ on recovery after mass extinctions

Rocks with banded iron formations and biosignatures - 1,900 million years old, Michigan, US (top left), 2,700 million years old, Ontario, Canada (bottom left) and 2,500 million years old, Karijini National Park, Western Australia (right).

Tracking records of the oldest life forms on Earth

Sollasina cthulhu

‘Cthulhu’ fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers

The bone is from a new species of hominin.

New species of early human found in the Philippines

Cricosaurus bambergensis

Jurassic crocodile discovery sheds light on reptiles’ family tree

Peregocetus

Ancient, four-legged whale with otter-like features found along the coast of...

lambeosaurine (crested 'duck-billed' dinosaur)

First-confirmed occurrence of a lambeosaurine dinosaur found on Alaska’s North Slope

Iron-oxidizing bacteria live in environments as extreme as the deep ocean and as common as roadside ditches. A recent paper in Frontiers proposes distributing the iron that these bacteria naturally produce to 'fertilize' phytoplankton and help remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

Study Looks to Iron from Microbes for Climate Help

Crocodylomorphs were a highly morphologically and ecologically diverse clade. These extinct crocodile relatives had a much richer variety of skull shapes than living crocodilians, suggesting a wide range of feeding strategies. Credit: Darren Naish, Tetrapod Zoology

Untangling the evolution of feeding strategies in ancient crocodiles

Fossilized fish piled one atop another

66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

In ancient oceans that resembled our own, oxygen loss triggered mass...

Scientists from The Australian National University have discovered the have discovered that 558 million-year-old Dickinsonia fossils do not reveal all of the features of the earliest known animals, which potentially had mouths and guts.

Mystery shrouding oldest animal fossils solved

Fossil whale barnacles from the Pleistocene were retrieved from the Burica Peninsula of Panama for analyses.

Fossil barnacles reveal prehistoric whale migrations

Scientists say the fossils have been "exquisitely" preserved. Credit: Ao Sun

Huge fossil discovery made in China’s Hubei province

Tyrannosaurus rex

World’s Biggest Tyrannosaurus rex

Feathers revealed in a ~125 million-year-old fossil of a bird hatchling shows it came "out of the egg running". Specimen MPCM-LH-26189 from Los Hoyas, Spain is preserved between two slabs of rock: (a) 'counter' slab under normal light (b) Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence (LSF) image combining the results from both rock slabs. This reveals brown patches around the specimen that include clumps of elongate feathers associated with the neck and wings and a single long vaned feather associated with the left wing. (c) Normal light image of the main slab. Scale is 5mm.

Ancient birds out of the egg running

Daihua sanqiong

Half-a-billion-year-old fossil reveals the origins of comb jellies

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