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Researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Cardiff discovered the forest dating from 390million years ago in high sandstone cliffs along the Devon and Somerset coast

The discovery of a 385-million-year-old forest in Cairo, NY, has stunned the world – but visitors to the region have been able to see rare fossil forests for more than a century.

For decades, the sandstone in central Australia yielded tantalising segments of some sort of fossil fish. Now, we have finally pieced together a complete picture of this remarkable species.

The tree’s canopy was 18 feet across, but its trunk was just half-a-foot thick.

What paleontologists long believed were long spines on the aptly named Alienacanthus turn out to be an extended lower jaw.

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life.But at least five times, a biological catastrophe

At least five times, a catastrophe has killed off the vast majority of Earth’s species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

Explore the remarkable journey of Alex Ritchie, a paleontologist who discovered fossils in Antarctica. Learn about his impact on understanding continental shifts and the evolution of life.

World-renowned palaeontologist Dr Alex Ritchie, who died last month, had a fan in Sir David Attenborough.

Whoever first used the term “old school” might have been thinking about Edward “Ted” Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences.