Researchers have discovered the oldest known example of a predator-prey “arms race,” based on their study of ancient fossils.

Such treasures were presented to the world in 2024 that have changed the way we see life on Earth, both in the evolution of ...

A record bowfin was caught on a NJ creek on a warm day last month. Bowfin are living fossils as they're last survivor of a ...

To address this challenge, researchers are turning to the deep-sea fossil record, which offers a unique window into how deep-sea ecosystems and their fauna have responded to environmental changes ...

Because life as we know it depends on the death and decomposition of organisms, the fossil record is necessarily incomplete. As such, finding fossils involves not only perseverance and luck ...

One way we can understand the effect of climate change is to look at the geological past - millions of years ago - and the fossil record, to see what happened to organisms during periods of time in ...

Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ...

A hedge fund billionaire bought the skeleton at Sotheby’s for $44.6 million in July, toppling the previous record — for a T-rex named Stan — and underscoring fossils’ status as luxury collectibles for ...