In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms ...

The Heroes of the Natural World celebration, organised by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, was held at Barrow Dock Museum. The event honoured the lives and legacies of influential figures in natural science ...

A routine genetic test in South Korea uncovered Acanthochitona feroxa, a chiton species misidentified for years.

A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...

Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...

Megalodon shark teeth, Neolithic arrow heads, mammoth bones and bird fossils are just some of the great discoveries made in Walton!

From magical swimming spots to museums and pizza joints, our readers share their top Welsh discoveries ...

A fossilised lobster claw has inspired a lifelong passion for palaeontology.

In a study published in Historical Biology, Dr. Mohammed Naimi and his colleagues report the discovery of the first plesiosaurian remains from Algeria. Additionally, the fossil, dated to the Late ...

Young Earth creationists insist that the Bible be read literally. In their view, to reject biblical chronology ...

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...

The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They might be opalized or rainbow-colored, or perhaps glittering like an ornate lump ...