Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Tiny fossils found in 1.7 billion‑year‑old mud yield clues to the evolution of complex life

The companies that drilled these cores were largely unaware that within these mudstones were fossils of microscopic organisms ...
Live Science

Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery shows

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

Scientists Discover Bizarre 100-Million-Year-Old Insect With Giant Claws

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of true bug that has claws. Amber from Myanmar’s Kachin region has ...
GoodNewsNetwork

‘Exciting’ Fossil Find Reveals That Platypuses Swam with Dolphins 25 Million Years Ago

An artist’s impression of the toothed platypus that swam with dolphins 25 million years ago – credit, Gen Conway, Flinders University via SWNS Everyone knows that the platypus is the world’s strangest ...
The Conversation

The cradle of Earth’s rich ocean life was a massive coral reef system 20 million years ago

New research published today in Science Advances reveals that the largest expansion of coral reefs in the past 100 million years happened about 20 to 10 million years ago, between Australia and ...
Gizmodo

New Digital Tool Lets You See Where Your Backyard Was Millions of Years Ago

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard crossed thousands of miles to reach its particular point on the planet, and ...
Interesting Engineering

320 million-year-old history of any home could be tracked with new online tool

Location of The Netherlands (pink) in Pangaea, 258 million years ago. Brown: Current continental crust above water, Light brown: Thinned and reconstructed continental crust, mostly submerged.Utrecht ...
Wall Street Journal

Will a Los Angeles Megamansion Become America’s First $400 Million Home?

The housing market for the uber-wealthy has reached a new stratosphere. Amid a flurry of $100 million and $200 million listings and sales, a California estate with ties to Qatari royals is hitting the ...
IFLScience

New Online Tool Lets You See Where On Earth Your House Was Located 320 Million Years Ago

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...
The New York Times

40 Years Ago, a Nuclear Catastrophe at Chernobyl

Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation and the long-term consequences of the world’s worst nuclear accident. In ...
Science Daily

Giant octopuses ruled the oceans 100 million years ago, study finds

Giant, fearsome octopuses may have once ruled the ancient seas, according to new research that flips the script on their evolutionary past. By uncovering exquisitely preserved fossil jaws hidden ...