Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

The missing link in the mystery turned out to be an event called the Cambrian explosion. It was only after it that living ...

The Welsh Sheep Genetics Programme (WSGP) is celebrating a period of unparallelled success, demonstrating the role of ...

Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Dinosaurs ruled the planet between 230 to 66 million years ago, although many other life forms had evolved well before their ...

Fossils of tiny, jawless marine animals reveal tooth structures sharper than sharks or steel, forcing scientists to rethink ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...

Rare fossils found along the Colorado River 'give us a fuller picture of what life was like during the Cambrian period,' says ...