Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

With their fabulous but flimsy wings, butterflies don't tend to fare well in the fossilization process, leaving much of their ...

A remarkable assemblage of fossils from China is revealing that animal life diversified in Earth's primordial seas millions ...

Scientists reveal how microbes preserved a 183-million-year-old ichthyosaur as a stunning three-dimensional fossil now ...

Studying fossils is critical to understanding how life evolved on Earth. They can help us understand plants and animals that have been extinct for millions of years and our own human evolutionary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...

Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world's best-preserved fossils ...

Scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of paleontology by developing a technique that uses uranium-infused dinosaur eggshells to accurately date ancient fossil sites. This ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older than previously believed.