Paleontologists recently uncovered a striking golden fossil—encased in fool’s gold—scientifically known as iron pyrite, estimated to be 450 million years old. This ancient fossil belongs to a newly ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

The ongoing extinction, Holocene, is being caused by the activities of “One Weedy Species” – humans ...

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A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Like other Megacheirans, Lomankus is an example of an arthropod with an adaptable head and specialized appendages (a scorpion ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

The fossil is also evidence of the fact that although megacheirans lived during the Cambrian Period (485 million to 538 ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who this week announced he'd unearthed a ...