Since time immemorial, humankind has wondered about its lineage: where it came from and how it got here. Modern science has ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

In this video, we'll take you on a tour of the best fossil fish area in the world! The Green River area for fossil fish in ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the ...

The modern coelacanth is a famous "living fossil," long thought to have died out, but first fished out of deep waters in the Indian Ocean in 1938. Since then, dozens of examples have been found, but ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists ...

Paleontologists have identified a new genus of fossil goby, revealing evolutionary secrets of a lineage that stretches back millions of years. Gobies or Gobioidei are one of the most species-rich ...

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Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

One fossil proved especially remarkable: an early relative of seahorses and pipefishes preserved with its body armor still ...