BERKELEY, CA – A detailed and extensive new analysis of the fossil records of marine animals over the past 542 million years has yielded a stunning surprise. Biodiversity appears to rise and fall in ...

Ancient fossil beans about the size of modern limes, and among the largest seeds in the fossil record, may provide new insight into the evolution of today's diverse Southeast Asian and Australian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People have collected fossil horses throughout North America for centuries. Florida Museum/Mary Warrick Many people assume that ...

Flow chart illustrating the methods employed for reconstructing changes in the spatial organization of biota with increasing extinction intensity. Credit: Darroch, et al. Flow chart illustrating the ...

The “world’s oldest octopus” was actually a 300-million-year-old fossil impostor hiding its secret in tiny teeth.

New genetic techniques are shedding light on a mysterious part of our family tree—ancient human relatives called the Denisovans that emerged during the Pleistocene epoch, approximately 370,000 years ...

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...

Artistic reconstruction of a late Triassic undersea scene before (left) and after (right) a climate change-related extinction event. (Maija Karala via Courthouse News) (CN) — In order to learn how to ...

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a connection ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences confirms that fossilized remains of marine invertebrates can accurately reflect the functional diversity of past ecosystems ...

The oldest fossilized remains of complex animals appear suddenly in the fossil record, and as if from nowhere, in rocks that are 538 million years old. The rapid arrival of animals so different to ...