Discover Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old worm-like fossil, offering the first Precambrian evidence of Ecdysozoa ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 ...

The bowstrings were found ... oldest known European fletched arrow — and a wooden point made of an olive twig. One of the bowstrings was also from this era, making it among the oldest bowstrings ...

The discovery of Uncus dzaugisi, a 555-million-year-old fossil in South Australia, confirms Precambrian origins for ...

However, the fossil record from other periods is considerably less known. Nonetheless, remarkable fossils have been found, such as the world’s oldest mosquito, nearly a thousand species of ammonoids ...

In a recently published paper, scientists are buzzing about the find of a lifetime — an ancient therapsid fossil, potentially the most ancient of its kind ... “It didn’t have any fur, and it wouldn’t ...

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large-headed stick." Stick insects keep evolving to have the ...

Newly discovered fossils matched up with a mysterious “alien plant” species found in 1969 and brought ... making the “alien” the only example ever seen of its kind.

A MIND-boggling discovery has left scientists even more puzzled about one of the most mysterious fossils ever found. A 47-million ... this is the oldest known fossil of the fern family ...

They were able to use new microscopy and artificial technology to get a more detailed view of the fossils, where they found micro-impressions of developing seeds on the UC Berkeley fossil’s fruits.