Apr 5, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed a fossilized arthropod that carried its young in pouches tethered to the parent’s body, like a...

Mar 2, 2016 by News Staff

According to Dr. Martin Smith, a paleontologist at Durham University, UK, a fossil dating from the Silurian period of the Palaeozoic era, about 440 million...

Sep 24, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature, enamel evolved in the skin and colonized the teeth much later. Early evolution of...

Jun 13, 2014 by News Staff

A newly discovered fossil fish named Megamastax amblyodus is the largest vertebrate known in the Silurian fossil record, says a group of paleontologists...

Jan 27, 2014 by News Staff

Scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom have described a fossil species of marine arthropod that lived during the Silurian period. This...

Sep 26, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of paleontologists from China, the United States and Sweden has found a well-preserved fossil of ancient fish that lived in what is now China about...

Dec 14, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has made an extremely rare discovery of a 425-million-year-old fossil ostracod crustacean with body, limbs, eyes,...