Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a ...

This jaw-dropping shark is pink, nightmarishly ugly and can slingshot its jaw out of its face when it’s hungry ...

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Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.

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Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...

Most of us have picked up a shell or two that caught our eye while strolling the beach, and many of us might even have a ...

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Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...