One of the oldest known 3D fossils of an animal has been discovered in a sheep field in the Norwegian Arctic, the first new major site of its kind anywhere in Europe in decades. The fossil dates from ...

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated ...

The fossil, known as Charnia, looks more like a fern than anything we would recognize as an animal today. The post Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare? appeared first on Talker.

A rock tumbled off a cliff in a Norwegian sheep field, split open, and revealed something that scientists say reshapes our understanding of where ancient life hid itself. What looks like a fern turns ...

If you happen to be right-handed, you may be able to trace the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that lived about 550 million years ago and had a tendency to bend to the right. Spriggina ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas were acidic and rich in iron, and volcanic activity roared across a barren ...