Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

What fascinated him most was their visual system, the first in the fossil record to be really well preserved. The eyes of some trilobites contained more than 15,000 calcite lenses; they looked ...

Rare evidence about cyclidan crustaceans has been uncovered in the USA, revealing more about how they behaved.

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Such fossils are found across the Himalayas, and finds include trilobites, brachiopods, ostracods and crinoids. Almost all sedimentary rocks are formed by water erosion, grinding up rocks over ...

Professor Primula's Portfolio of Palaeontology is a new dinosaur-packed Dungeons and Dragons splashbook designed by real dino ...

Now Atwater has written a kids' book about fossils, The Fossil Keeper's Treasure ... including prehistoric creatures such as crab-like trilobites and the extinct genus Smilodon (or what most ...

Previous work has uncovered a trove of marine fossils dating back up to 110 million years ago, which also makes the latest ...