In 2009, while examining an old quarry, Charles Ver Straeten, the curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, noticed something unusual. He was scouting the area with colleagues Linda ...

What do the ginkgo (a tree), the nautilus (a mollusk) and the coelacanth (a fish) all have in common? They don’t look alike, ...

Geological evidence reveals that corals already existed in the Devonian period, over 385 million years ago, for example in the Eifel and Sauerland regions in Germany. Fossilized corals of the extinct ...

“In Africa, Stolokrosuchus co-occurred with Sarcosuchus, while in the great pole of diversity of pepesuchines, the Bauru Group in Brazil, only one putative neosuchian was described to date and there ...

"The thing that really stuns me is that every innovation, every invention used by tetrapods on land, originally appeared in some form in fish, including lungs, appendages, and now, feeding," said ...