TRIBUTES have been paid to a leading palaeontologist and naturalist from Henley who has died. Richard Fortey passed away at ...

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

In this study, the authors analyse its fossil record and show that global ... movable compound eyes and dorsally, trilobite-like sessile ones.

Ken Dardano never imagined his passion for rock collecting would turn into today's crystal empire when he launched his ...

Richard Fortey, head of paleontology at the Natural History Museum - Alamy ...

It’s not causing panic! in the fossil record, but a 430-million-year-old mollusk discovery in Britain is a source of excitement for some scientists. Scientists say the snail darter, whose ...

It was a history to which Fortey had contributed through his fascination with trilobites, which had been sparked aged 14 when, fossil hunting in Wales, he saw a promising-looking rock and tapped ...

Feb. 27, 2025 — Researchers examined dozens of bird species in museum collections looking for differences in the feathers and bodies between birds that can fly and birds that can't. They found ...

Mar. 6, 2025 — Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was ...

The oldest rocks are around 3.8 billion years old, and the oldest fossils are around 3.5 billion years old. An explosion of life seemed to have occurred around 2.5 billion years ago. Since then, there ...