Researchers have uncovered the oldest known example of an evolutionary arms race in the fossil record, dating back 517 ...

In the remote outback of South Australia, paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a peculiar creature ... Named Quaestio simpsonorum, this ancient marine organism lived approximately 555 million ...

A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record ...

Hundreds of perforated Cambrian shells reveal distinctive predator-prey dynamics in the ocean 517 million years ago.

Now, the discovery of an older species, Palaeospondylus australis, from Early Devonian rocks in Australia ... marine ecosystems across the globe. The remarkable preservation of these fossils ...

They were the first complex multi-cellular organisms to appear ... "Most rocks containing these fossils, such as those from the Ediacara Hills in Australia, have endured a lot of heat, a lot ...

Caught in the crossfire of a titanic struggle between the Allies and the Axis powers, these submerged relics tell of a time when Australia ... thousands of marine animals—including seabirds ...