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For more than 25 years, a small, soft-bodied fossil pulled from an Illinois coal mine held a remarkable title: the world’s oldest known octopus. That title is now gone. A team of researchers, led by ...

A 310-million-year-old shark egg case has been discovered in South Yorkshire. The fossil, identified by Dean Lomax and his team, stands out because soft-bodied remains like this almost never survive.

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans. Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil ...

Giant dragonflies once roamed earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct. Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years ...

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Peel apart layers of coal shale deposited in the Carboniferous and you’ll discover the exquisite beauty of fern foliage that thrived in swamps 345 million years ago, when the most advanced life-forms ...

The Carboniferous period is pivotal in the geological record, marked by intricate stratigraphic sequences and diverse microfossil assemblages that reveal past environmental conditions and tectonic ...