Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

S ome "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

The species, Lomankus edgecombei, was discovered at New York's Beecher's Trilobite Bed, a site famous for exceptional ...

A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist.

The creature lived on the ocean floor during the Ordovician Period (485 million to 444 million years ago) at a time when life had only a ... way for a fossil to form. The fossil, one of five ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Humans and other mammals will in the future vanish from Earth in a mass extinction event linked to extreme temperatures, a ...

A remarkable fossil discovery has unveiled a 450-million-year-old species preserved in a golden sheen of fool’s gold, or pyrite, in a rare preservation process that captures intricate details of soft ...

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

“Fossils like this tell us a great deal about what life on Earth looked like hundreds of millions ... an organism’s body is ...