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Bryozoans are tiny, filter-feeding colonial invertebrates that thrive in the world's oceans today, yet for decades their ...

This fossil-hunting road trip begins in Kentucky at a famous road cut packed with Ordovician-age fossils. The rocks are so ...

The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ancient seafloor roughly 470 million years ago. Limestone near the peak ...

A remarkable fossil hidden in a museum collection for decades is helping scientists rethink one of the biggest mysteries in ...

CINCINNATI — Visitors to the Cincinnati Museum Center can now experience a new, permanent exhibit offering a peek into a world that existed 450 million years ago. The exhibit addition, Ancient Worlds ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

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Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years. By Asher Elbein The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where ...

A forgotten fossil discovered in a museum drawer after more than 60 years is challenging assumptions about animal evolution.