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Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant life forms. Towering plants filled swampy forests, amphibians slithered ...

National has made a choice to cut women’s pay and rob future generations of Kiwisaver contributions to make its Budget add up ...

What can you tell us about this creature and the environment it lived in? The fossil is about 50cm long and has 46 almost identical segments. Projecting from each is a delicate, gill-like structure.

This striking revelation is set to reshape our understanding of early animal evolution. The fossil, named Shishania aculeata, hails from 500-million-year-old Cambrian deposits in Yunnan Province ...

For decades, an "extremely rare" fossil sat unidentified in Japan's Museum of Unique Insect Fossils. Discovered in 1988 in Hyogo Prefecture, the imprint of a large butterfly wing and body is now ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered fossil evidence of an endangered, living tropical tree species. The unprecedented find was made in Brunei, a country on the large island of Borneo ...

But a recent fossil discovery near Frankfurt, Germany is helping expand our knowledge of the bug’s evolution—and it appears to be the earliest example of the Cicadinae subfamily ever found.

And the Little Dal fossils are no different. "What we have is essentially something a bit like a Rorschach inkblot test, where there are some squiggles in a rock," says Jonathan Antcliffe ...

“You never know when you’re going to strike gold,” said Chasteen. Gold, of course, means finding fossils in waterways around the state of Florida. When you head out with Chasteen and his ...

BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE BONE, RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE CREATURE IT BELONGED TO MUST HAVE BEEN AT LEAST 30FT LONG. THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have ...