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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...

Life reconstruction of ichthyosaur skull. Credit: Bob Nicholls (Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum)

Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric...

Four complete Tragychrysa ovoruptora newborns preserved together with egg shell remains and one visible egg burster (right inset). Credit: Modified from the open access article published in Palaeontology: 'The hatching mechanism of 130-million-year-old insects: an association of neonates, egg shells, and egg bursters in Lebanese amber'

Newborn insects trapped in amber show first evidence of how to...

Mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaurs

Saltriovenator zanellai

The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps

millipede

450 fossilized millipedes found in 100-million-year-old amber

Panoplosaurus mirus and Euoplocephalus tutus.

Huge armored dinosaurs battled overheating with nasal air-conditioning

Megalosaurus

Spectacular flying reptiles soared over Britain’s tropical Jurassic past

‘Treasure trove’ of dinosaur footprints found in southern England

Close-up of a looping millipede death-trail.

Early animals: Death near the shoreline, not life on land

Nanjinganthus fossil

Fossils suggest flowers originated 50 million years earlier than thought

Crittendeceratops

Horned dinosaur Crittendenceratops discovered in Arizona

Daohugou pterosaur

New discovery pushes origin of feathers back by 70 million years

Two of the fossils sampled for the study with the fossil melanosomes found in each fossil (scanning electron microscope images). Scaniacypselus to the left and Primotrogon to the right. Melanosome shape varies in the different samples, and is indicative of color. The sample furthest to the left was predicted to be iridescent. Credit: Photographs of Scaniacypselus and Primotrogon by Jakob Vinther and Fiann Smithwick.

Scientists discover how birds and dinosaurs evolved to dazzle with colourful...

This is a drawing of the extinct Australian giant short-faced kangaroo Simosthenurus occidentalis, part of the Sthenurinae sub-family.

Tiny Australian wallaby the last living link to extinct giant kangaroos

A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms. This unidentified nematode (Poikilolaimus sp.) from Kopanang gold mine in South Africa, lives 1.4 km below the surface. Credit: Gaetan Borgonie, Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium

Life in Deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of...

Volgatitan simbirskiensis anterior caudal vertebra

Scientists find new giant dinosaur

A fossil trilobite with its complex eye

Enhancing our vision of the past

Spectacular soft-tissue fossil

Soft tissue shows Jurassic ichthyosaur was warm-blooded, had blubber and camouflage

Main slab of Pengornithid Enantiornithine

Medullary bone found in Cretaceous birds

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