Over 500 million years ago, the Cambrian Period sparked an explosion of skeletal creativity. Salterella, a peculiar fossil, ...

Scientists have uncovered an ancient fossil site deep in the Grand Canyon that could rewrite what we know about early life on ...

A deep dive into animal influencer Lindsay Nikole's first book 'Epic Earth' all about the history of ancient Earth.

Ancient fossils unearthed in Morocco reveal parasitic worms burrowing into mollusc shells approximately 480 million years ago ...

Sea urchins are simple creatures, wandering the seafloor without thought. Or so we thought. They are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which first appeared during the Cambrian explosion. Their list ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

How animals of the Cambrian period experienced the Cambrian Explosion, which shaped life today and could help researchers ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of ...

A solar eclipse unsettles the natural world in ways you might not expect. As the moon crosses paths with the sun, the sudden drop in light and temperature confuses animals and throws their finely ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along with collaborators, has found that long-term orbital variations occurring over ...