Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...

When paleontologists picture the earliest animals, they tend to imagine something with at least a rudimentary skeleton: a ...

The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

Nilpena Ediacara National Park in South Australia is well known for its collection of fossils from the Ediacaran period—a geologic timespan that predates the Cambrian explosion. An international team ...

A rare fossil fish scan reveals brain features and adaptations tied to the transition from aquatic to land animals.

A team of scientists digging up some of the Earth’s oldest rocks has uncovered new chemical evidence that Earth’s first animals were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The discovery relies on ...

Being a punk rocker means being perpetually misunderstood. So perhaps it’s vindication that that some seafloor fossils, once considered just piles of decomposing gunk, may now be reclassified as ...

Artistic rendering of what scientists believe Quaestio simpsonorum looked like. Credit: Walker Weyland. In the shadow of South Australia's largest mountain range beneath the outback soil lies a fossil ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Here's why Dickinsonia challenges our previously held ...