Once dismissed as sticks and forgotten in a museum, the 5,000-year-old tools show prehistoric people hunted whales far from ...

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

The fossilized remains of two sea creatures called goniatites were found in the White Peak - but the National Trust does not ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered what may be the biggest example of the species ever recorded—at more than 13 feet ...

On a Bahamian island, in a landlocked lagoon, the planet’s densest collection of seahorses is offering scientists new ...

Archaeologists in Spain have brought back the voice of the Neolithic by successfully playing ancient shells that had been ...

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The blue whale is the largest animal known to have ever lived, reaching lengths of nearly 100 feet and weighing more than 300 ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.