New fossil evidence from China suggests that some of our vertebrate ancestors had four eyes. The study, published in Nature, ...
A team of scientists led by Dr. Matthew McCurry from the Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney unveiled the discovery of a ...
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Scientists find 443-million-year-old fossil eyes eerily like our own
Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar.
An extraordinary fossil bed in the arid grasslands of the Australian continent, called McGraths Flat, really is the Lagerstätte that keeps on giving. Just a few years after uncovering a trove of ...
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Huge fossil bonanza preserves 512-million-year-old ecosystem
A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...
Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than a century. The study reveals that these ancient “living fossils” thrived in ...
Joe Kchodl, popularly known as “PaleoJoe,” recently returned from a summer trip to Wyoming, where he went “fishing” with his adult daughter Jen, who's known as “PaleoJen.” Although the 50-million-year ...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on its skin (shown in orange). Credit: Yara Haridy CT scan of the front of a skate, showing the hard, tooth-like denticles on ...
Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where ...
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