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Part of a quilted Ediacaran fossil is partly covered by ancient wind-drift from Namibia. Image courtesy of Greg Retallack.

Thin layers of sediment point to early arrival of life on...

Competition from cats drove extinction of many species of ancient dogs

Researchers conducting fieldwork in Namibia as part of a previous study.

Ancient records prompt rethink of animal evolution timeline

The giant ape went extinct 100000 years ago, due to its...

Paleontologists pioneer laser-beam scanning of dinosaur fossils

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

New theory on Earth’s biggest mystery

Paleontologists discover new fossil organism

Recent shift in relationship among species that prevailed for more than...

Microbes in a sub-seafloor aquifer feast on carbon in fluids flowing through the permeable rock.

Deep water aquifer acts like natural bio-reactor, allowing microbes to consume...

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

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.

Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon

The key fossil examined in this study is a 3-million-year-old extinct species of field mouse from Germany.

Researchers identify reddish coloring in an ancient fossil

This is a virtual rendering of the Visogliano and Fontana Ranuccio teeth.

Neanderthal-like features in 450,000-year-old fossil teeth from the Italian Peninsula

Variation in the recovery of tetrapods after the Permian extinction opened...

Illustration of the Jurassic thyreophoran Scelidosaurus harrisonii, Jack Mayer Wood, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Only dinosaurs found in ireland described for the first time

A 3D model of the mandible of Alophia rendered from high resolution CT scans.

Fossil teeth from Kenya solve ancient monkey mystery

Magnesium within plankton provides tool for taking the temperatures of past...

First winged mammals from the Jurassic period discovered

Two fossilized flowers next to each were discovered in shales of the Salamanca Formation in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Credit: Nathan Jud/Provided

Oldest buckthorn fossilized flowers found in Argentina

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