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One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years. By Asher Elbein The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where ...

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About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

CINCINNATI — Visitors to the Cincinnati Museum Center can now experience a new, permanent exhibit offering a peek into a world that existed 450 million years ago. The exhibit addition, Ancient Worlds ...

NEW HAVEN -- Thousands of animal fossils, many of them representing species never seen before, have been unearthed in Morocco by Yale scientists Peter Van Roy and Derek Briggs, it was announced last ...

A pair of amateur paleontologists have recently uncovered a world-class fossil site containing the remains of creatures that lived around 470 million years ago. The site, which contains almost 400 ...

Nearly 400 exceptionally well-preserved fossils dating back 470 million years have been discovered in the south of France by two amateur paleontologists. This new fossil site of worldwide importance ...