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The evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been wound back more than 400 million years, thanks to the examination of fossil remains of ancient lungfish providing a missing link in the emergence of land-living, four-legged animals on

Ancient lungfish fossils have provided a missing link in the evolutionary chain that led to the rise of land-dwelling, four-legged creatures on Earth,

The evolution of the brain and nervous system in animals has been wound back more than 400 million years, thanks to the examination of fossil remains of ancient lungfish providing a missing link in the emergence of land-living, four-legged animals on Earth.

In a new book, fossil collector Andy Secher takes readers on a worldwide trek of trilobite hotspots

Over the course of an almost a decade, the Scottish artist has gathered and crushed ancient geological specimens to create a work of real conceptual power

Penn Dixie is scheduled to reopen on Saturday, April 30 for the 2022 season.

RAGBRAI XLIXs route will take riders past a famed grotto, the National Hobo Museum and a fossil park on their journey from Sergeant Bluff to Lansing.

Geologists have long assumed that the evolution of land plants enabled rivers to form snakelike meanders, but a review of recent research overturns that classic theory – and it calls for a reinterpretation of the rock record.

Significant bite marks found on prehistoric sharks prove that the creatures attacked each other. Four different discoveries of now-extinct shark vertebrae revealed numerous bite marks with even teeth embedded in one of them. It is known that sharks can prey on each other – even fetuses occasionally eat their siblings inside of the womb. This... Read more »

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