A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that ...

Teeth marks made on the leg bone of a large avian reptile known as a terror bird 13 million years ago suggest an even bigger ...

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Finely preserved brain features in a tiny fossil suggest that spiders and their kin may have first evolved in the ocean ...

Scientists from the University of York have extracted ancient proteins from a 21–24 million-year-old fossilised rhino tooth ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

New discoveries surrounding the origins of Stonehenge have piqued the nation’s interest in all things archaeological. Here ...

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Curious students ask a fossilised tree about its ancient experiences, from witnessing civilisations to surviving natural disasters.

Reconstruction of ocean pH finds rapid acidification of oceans caused by massive and sudden CO2 rise caused a mass extinction event 201 million years ago ...

Finely preserved brain features in a tiny marine arthropod fossil suggest that arachnids – spiders and their close kin – may have first evolved in the ocean rather than on land, say scientists.