A complete Cretaceous shellfish fossil. (University of Portsmouth) Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly ...

Discoveries from the Isle of Wight have unveiled ancient shellfish fossils that highlight early parental care practices.

Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the body over the other – a ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

From the column: "Nature is a drug, a temple, a gauge, a rudder, a therapist. What to do? Speak, write, sit in it, contribute ...

Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies. Scorpion mothers carry still-soft-shelled babes on their backs, reminding us that even ...

Every fossil is a time capsule with its own story to tell—or sing. Now paleontologists have listened as never before, recreating an insect song that has not been heard in 165 million years. Working in ...