Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

An astonishing discovery has been made atop the world’s highest peak. Fossils of marine life have been uncovered at over 8,000 meters above sea level on Mount Everest. These ancient remnants date back ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing that the most revealing relics of ancient organisms are not their shapes ...

Ancient fossils show how much warming tropical oceans can handle before plankton collapse, offering clues about future ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Fossils of two fish from over 400 million years ago - one a tiny streamlined creature, the other a giant among vertebrates of its time with bizarre teeth - have been discovered in China, filling a ...

They open up the possibility of an evolutionary link with the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils – those from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dated to around 315,000 years ago. These discoveries help clarify ...

The model focused on “palaeogeographic context,” meaning the ancient layout of coasts, islands, and seaways. It tested whether coastline orientation and coastline shape predicted extinctions over deep ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...