A synopsis of American fossil Bryozoa [microform] : including bibliography and synonymy by Nickles, John M. (John Milton), 1859-1945; Bassler, Ray S. (Ray Smith), b. 1878 Publication date 1900 Topics ...

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.

His family donated the fossil to Hebei GEO University, and researchers first described it in a set of studies published in 2021 that found the skull to be at least 146,000 years old.

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They then rapidly spread to many regions around the world including what is now the UK. But despite being their closest relatives, the first known fossils of pterosaurs don’t appear until around 20 ...

But hard evidence remained elusive. Until now, the oldest known lepidopteran fossils dated back only to 201 million years ago, leaving a frustrating 40-million-year gap in the record.

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...

A giant, strong-jawed salamander once tunneled through ancient Tennessee soil. And thanks to a fossil unearthed near East Tennessee State University, scientists now better understand how it helped ...

A rare fossil find in Alberta, Canada, shows a young pterosaur bone with a crocodilian bite mark. Scientists from University of Reading and Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology studied the bone.

In this video, we explore the recent discovery of Homo erectus fossils from dredging operations in the Madura Strait, Indonesia, which was once part of the ancient landmass of Sundaland. The ...

Archimedes is a species of bryozoa named because of its corkscrew shape. The name was derived from the Archimedes screw, a type of water pump that propelled water ships and had a similar design to the ...