A fossil fish skull, Macropoma gombessae, that sat unnoticed in a London museum for nearly 140 years has now changed fish ...

Learn how a newly discovered jellyfish species fossil from Quebec reveals how early jellyfish evolved and why soft-bodied life is so rarely preserved.

Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record? / Tommy L. F. Leung -- Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa / George Poinar ...

A rare fossil discovery is shedding light on the “missing years” of early sponge evolution. Scientists found a ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...

Chapter 1. The fossil record of parasitism: Its extent and taphonomic constraints -- Chapter 2. Importance of data on fossil symbioses for parasite-host evolution -- Chapter 3. Biodiversity and ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

The fossil record of baleen whales (Mysticeti) offers a window into one of the most dramatic evolutionary transitions among mammals. Early cetaceans evolved from terrestrial artiodactyl ancestors into ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

A discovery in Egypt is upending everything we know about the origins of the great apes, including that of humans. While scientists have long concentrated their efforts in East Africa, a fossil ...

A 300-million-year-old fossil hailed as the world's oldest "octopus" has turned out to be something else altogether. The ...