Some animals seem out of place at first glance. Sometimes that can be chalked up to the limits of imagination, but other ...

Life on Earth began over four billion years ago ... here are the animals that get my vote for “most prehistoric-looking.” They may not be the oldest animals on Earth, but they aren’t ...

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

Fossil evidence discovered in southern Alberta suggests a crocodile-like creature bit a flying reptile 76 million years ago, ...

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Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago and ending with the emergence of complex, multicelled life-forms ...

Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be signs of prehistoric life in Faversham in Kent. The Kent Archaeological Society believes it has found a burial site dating back between 1,500 ...

Scientists have found potential remnants of Earth’s ancient crust deep within the mantle using new seismic mapping techniques ...

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history ... ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow water, in places like ...

Fossils are physical evidence of prehistoric animals and plants ... We can use them to observe how life on Earth has changed over time. Transitional fossils are particularly useful. Transitional ...

Researchers have discovered a 380-million-year-old heart preserved inside a fossilised prehistoric fish ... important step in the evolution of life on Earth, according to Dr Martin Brazeau ...