The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers have discovered. The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a ...

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The arthropod fossil used to describe a new species (left) and CT scans of the specimen (right) Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models). Edited by Emily Lankiewicz Long ago, an unlucky ...

Now, in what has been described as a “spectacularly preserved” discovery, a new species of spider has been identified from a ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders, ...

Rebecca Totten, associate professor at the University of Alabama looks into the mud at the bottom of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Totten, a micro-paleontologist studies microscopic fossils of sea ...