Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion ...

Ever heard of Spicomellus afer? It has been described as one of the more unusual dinosaurs, and new research has only further confirmed this. Recently discovered fossils have revealed that its entire ...

The world’s most unusual dinosaur is even stranger than first realised... Today, research published in Nature [link] reports that Spicomellus afer had a tail weapon more than 30 million years before ...

A new study has uncovered how strange amphibians that once lived in north-western Western Australia became early evolutionary success stories after the most catastrophic mass extinction in Earth’s ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Spicomellus afer, a newly analyzed Jurassic ankylosaur from Morocco, is overturning scientists’ understanding of dinosaur evolution. Unlike any other known creature, it carried a collar of meter-long ...

A strange little snake fossil found on England’s south coast has finally revealed its secrets—more than 40 years after it was discovered. The newly named Paradoxophidion richardoweni lived around 37 ...

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...