Led by Scott Evans, assistant curator of invertebrate palaeontology at the American Museum of Natural History, it draws on ...

Early eukaryotes, the lineage that later gave rise to animals, plants and fungi, may have depended on oxygen from the start.

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...

Scientists utilized 3D X-ray imaging to uncover new details that challenged previous ideas about prehistoric marine life.

For many years, it was widely believed that fossils no longer contained their original organic molecules as the fossilisation process was thought to destroy them. However, a groundbreaking study, led ...

Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.