Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a new extinct coelacanth species that highlights the role that Earth’s plate tectonics plays in evolution. Also called Latimeria, coelacanths are a deep-sea fish ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs, are actually evolving dramatically — and they evolved faster when Earth's continents moved ...

South Carolina is a phenomenal place to hunt fossils like giant megalodon and angustiden sharks teeth, which can be found on most beaches, inland waterways, and drainage areas. In fact, one of the ...

These ancient crustaceans are meager in size but mighty in history. A colony of prehistoric triops, a tadpole shrimp that’s existed for hundreds of millions of years, was beautifully captured by ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you take a look at a horseshoe crab, you are essentially peering ...

VIRGINIA KEY, FL (November 17, 2006) – The origin of life lies in unique ocean reefs, and scientists from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science have developed an ...

As a label for a distinct category of life, “living fossil” is controversial. The term has multiple deFInitions, and it is unclear whether the label can be genuinely used to delimit biodiversity. Even ...

What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, for a long time considered a key to the distant past, is now in the middle ...

In the cinema version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World, a remote wilderness is peopled with fantastic dinosaurs, purported survivors of the Age of Reptiles (200 million to 60 million years ago).

The Curiosity rover is moving on, the Hubble Space Telescope made an accidental discovery, and a mysterious object was found on the edge of the solar system -- and that's just some of what happened in ...