A recent study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.

Fast climatic shifts due to global warming coincided with high rates of morphological change in most reptiles.

The newly discovered species – Qikiqtania – highlights evolution’s twisty, tangled path.

A biologist explains how researchers nail down the age of ancient fossils thanks to a physical process called radioactive decay.

A terrifying sight in ancient waters, the megalodon shark was once the most feared creature in the sea.

The discovery of a unique 510 million-year-old fossil in a Pennsylvania churchyard offers new clues into how early life evolved on Earth.

A recent BBC documentary examined fossils thought to have been made when an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

A palaeontologist explains why the site at North Dakota probably does reveal the day the asteroid ended the rule of the dinosaurs.

Thanks to our new technique using fossilised tracks, we have been able to learn more about the locomotion of the largest creatures ever to have roamed this planet.

Thanks to our new technique using fossilised tracks, we have been able to learn more about the locomotion of the largest creatures ever to have roamed this planet.