Scientists stunned to find strange ‘alien plant’ that doesn’t belong to any known species - Findings point to lack of clarity on how diverse ecosystems were before they were lost to time, researchers ...

Dinosaur fossil find An international team from National Museums Scotland revealed the fossil of a Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a 5-meter-long aquatic reptile from the Triassic period. An ...

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A new fossil, named 'Attenborough's strange bird' after naturalist and documentarian Sir David Attenborough, is the first of its kind to evolve a toothless beak. It's from a branch of the bird family ...

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers on Wednesday described fossilized remains unearthed in China showing in fine detail the brain structures of a bizarre group of sea creatures that were the top ...

A strange fossil firefly found trapped in amber in Myanmar is shedding new light on the origin of glowing insects, scientists say. Several deepsea fish, mushrooms and insects are capable of emitting ...

In 1988, on the banks of the Puntledge River on Vancouver Island, a strange fossil began to emerge from the stone. It was long, with an almost serpentine neck, the skeleton of what seemed to be a ...