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 ...

Rare 160-million-year-old sea spider fossils from Southern France look nearly identical to living species, revealing a body ...

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 ...

Did our AI summary help? Imagine a scorpion longer than a cricket bat crawling across ancient Britain. A new study confirms that the largest scorpion ever discovered lived around 415 million years ago ...

Using the Keck Observatory, astronomers measured the spins of dozens of giant planets and brown dwarfs orbiting distant stars. They found that giant planets can spin faster than much more massive ...