The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

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Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Prototaxites fossils unearthed in Scotland that will be exhibited in the National Museums Scotland is believed to belong to gigantic organisms ...

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

A new Swansea University study has used advanced artificial intelligence to discover the asteroid strike that wiped out the ...

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A change in atmospheric chemistry during the covid pandemic resulted in methane concentrations spiking, raising concerns that ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Named Foskeia, from Greek "fos" for light and "skei" from boskein meaning to forage, the species honours the ancient ...