In 2025, the IUCN Red List officially declared several animal and plant species extinct, highlighting global biodiversity ...

Professor John Marshall, a palaeontologist at the University of Southampton, has been awarded a Polar Medal in the 2026 New Year’s Honours for his outstanding contributions to polar research. The ...

Professor John Marshall collecting samples on the End Devonian mass extinction in East Greenland. Credit: Chris Berry A ...

We’ve not found fossils before that showed this, and so finding this now was a huge (but really fantastic) surprise,” ...

D.C. Rally Thursday Urges End to Trump’s Extinction Plan WASHINGTON— Conservation groups including the Center for Biological Diversity will deliver hundreds of thousands of comments Thursday to the ...

Scientists are constantly discovering the fossils of mysterious and fascinating ancient creatures. Researchers have recently published details of one such discovery. It is a very interesting ...

Fossils sometimes rewrite the rules of history. In Staffordshire’s Carboniferous rocks, scientists discovered a 310-million-year-old ray-finned fish that carried extra teeth deep inside its mouth. The ...

A newly discovered 310-million-year-old fossilised fish is the earliest known example of one with extra teeth deep inside its mouth. The ray-finned fish found in Staffordshire evolved a "unique" way ...

Experts have uncovered the earliest known example of a fish with extra teeth deep inside its mouth—a 310-million-year-old fossilized ray-finned fish that evolved a unique way of devouring prey.

Fossils over 300 million years old reveal the evolution of a tongue bite in an ancient group of deep-bodied ray-finned fishes, such as Platysomus parvulus. Experts have uncovered the earliest known ...