Imagine pulling a dusty bone from a museum drawer and realising it doesn’t fit anywhere in nature’s family tree, like finding ...

It has been declared extinct, but is considered a living fossil and is related to the California redwood and giant sequoia, diverging around 150 million years ago. The dawn redwood is resilient and ...

How did soft-bodied organisms remain intact for millions of years?

In northeastern Brazil, a fossil that had quietly sat in a museum for decades has now rewritten a small part of the history ...

Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

While it shares features with modern humans, H. habilis also has traits that would have given it an advantage in climbing ...

There was something that was as high as a pole with eight metres before the trees overthrew it. The fossils of what long has been considered a giant ancient fungus, the Prototaxites, have been ...

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

It feels like it doesn’t fit comfortably anywhere,” says Matthew Nelsen, a senior research scientist at the Field Museum of ...

A fossilized foot discovered in Ethiopia and left unclassified for over a decade has now been linked to a little-known human ...

Flinders University paleontology researchers—with local fossil experts—have discovered how prolific shorebirds, including the ...