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Fossils of 444 million-year-old creatures whose bodies were preserved "inside-out" have been discovered in South Africa.

It is very difficult to know exactly the history of the Earth. For millions of years, the planet was inhabited by species ...

While it would still be many millions of years before ancient human relatives would appear, evidence of some of the earliest primate-like mammals comes from the Palaeogene. Dinosaurs are the largest ...

Improved technologies, such as biomechanical modeling and x-ray imaging, have allowed scientists to gain a deeper understanding of how this apex predator lived.

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cretaceous rock layers mean they're either not preserved or hard ...