The living coelacanth Latimeria is an iconic ‘living fossil’ within one of the most apparently conservative groups of vertebrates. Now, paleontologists...
Cymatioa cooki, a species of small bivalve mollusk previously only known from the Pleistocene period, has been found living intertidally near Santa Barbara,...
Tasmanian scientists have found living stromatolites (oldest known life form) in the Giblin River catchment of the UNESCO-listed Tasmanian Wilderness World...
A team of scientists in China has sequenced the genome of Ginkgo biloba, the oldest living tree species.
Ginkgo biloba. Image credit: Darkone / CC BY-SA...
Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History have described a shark species that lived during Carboniferous period, about 325 million years...
Paleontologists led by Dr Pascal Godefroit from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences have identified a new species of ichthyosaur from a well-preserved...
A new study published in the new peer-reviewed open access journal PeerJ sheds light on the origin of tadpole shrimps, a group commonly regarded as ‘living...
