Fossils from Scotland’s East Kirkton Quarry are now dated to 346 million years ago, offering rare insight into vertebrate ...

Paleontologists associated with different institutions in Argentina, along with a scientist from the U.K., have identified specks of scales from lepidopterans—a family of winged insects including ...

A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

Animal life, emerging nearly 600 million years ago, showcases incredible diversity and unique traits. Unlike plants, animals are heterotrophs, relying ...

A newly described creature from the Cambrian period is putting a bizarre twist ... in that series are supposed to be relicts of the Precambrian, and although that makes no sense scientifically ...

This tiny fossil, measuring just a few centimeters, is significant as it is the oldest confirmed ecdysozoan and the only one known from the Precambrian era. Lead researcher Ian Hughes, a Ph.D. can ...

A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the Precambrian period. Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects ...

But a UC Riverside-led team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the Precambrian period. Their discovery of Uncus dzaugisi, a worm-like ...

Scientists have identified Uncus dzaugisi, the oldest ecdysozoan fossil from the Precambrian period, confirming long-held assumptions about the ancient origins of this major animal group. Discovered ...

published in the journal Precambrian Research. Abderrazzak El Albani Life on Earth looks good for its age. Newly discovered fossil records hint that mold-like unicellular organisms — the common ...

In a study published in Precambrian Research Monday by scientists ... MORE: Paleontologists discover fossils of new crocodile-like reptile species that lived 237 million years ago Large ...