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An underwater picture of the modern demosponge species Rhabdastrella globostellata

Oldest evidence for animals

Tylosaurus fossil

Smallest ever Tylosaurus fossil sheds light on species

An illustration of how the smaller mammals will have to evolve and diversify over the next 3-5 million years to make up for the loss of the large mammals.

Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis

Sarahsaurus aurifontanalis

Newly described fossils could help reveal why some dinos got so...

One of the petrified remains of a victim of the eruption of Vesuvius volcano in 79 BC

New Pompeii evidence rewrites Vesuvius eruption history

Jaw with a durophagous dentition consisting of teeth with thick enamel of the gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata): The large molariform tooth was used for oxygen isotope analysis and to estimate the size of the fish.

Extensive trade in fish between Egypt and Canaan 3,500 years ago

flying squirrel Miopetaurista neogrivensis.

Oldest fossil of a flying squirrel sheds new light on its...

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

T, temperature; S, salinity; P, phosphate; N, nitrogen salt; Si, silicate; E, extracellular enzyme; POC, particulate organic carbon; DOC, dissolved organic carbon. Credit: ©Science China Press

Scientists propose that vibrios have significant roles in marine organic carbon...

The calcium carbonate skeleton of this living brain coral (Diploria labyrinthiformis) was evaluated for this study.

130-year-old brain coral reveals encouraging news for open ocean

Leggadina webbi jaw

Ancient mice discovered by climate cavers

euconodonts

The first predators and their self-repairing teeth

Jinguofortis perplexus

Chinese Cretaceous fossil highlights avian evolution

Ledumahadi mafube

Ledumahadi mafube: South Africa’s new jurassic giant

Researchers add surprising finds to the fossil record

Dickinsonia fossil

558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal

Edaphosaurus

What makes a mammal a mammal?

Mukawaryu

Japan’s largest complete dinosaur skeleton comes to life

Mesosaurus

Oldest known aquatic reptiles probably spent time on land

The fossilized trees contain information about a drastic climate change 12,000 years before present.

Searching for clues on extreme climate change

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