A species of coelacanth, a fish that dates back to before the dinosaurs, has been photographed in Indonesia for the first time. Chappuis overcame the challenge of deep mixed-gas diving, which has led ...

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, identifying 91 previously unknown species that lived approximately 512 ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A 100-million-year-old coelacanth fossil discovered in Texas is that of a new species of the fish often called a "living fossil," paleontologists say. The ...

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 ...

Paleontology is an exciting field, loved by many for its discoveries about past life on Earth. Fossils uncovered by paleontologists can provide clues about what extinct species looked like, how they ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.