It’s hard to imagine that some creatures on Earth have survived for millions of years. While many species have come and gone, ...

The announcement that the BBC is to stop broadcasting live episodes of its flagship children’s series, Blue Peter, has ...

Known as “living fossils,” these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to prove just how tough they are. Their ability to survive and adapt is nothing short of amazing.

there are also fossils of species still alive today, such as Lingulella chengjiangensis, a widespread Cambrian lingulid brachiopod (a kind of marine mollusk), which are often considered living ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, appearing in the fossil record before trees even existed. But what did they evolve from, are they ‘living fossils’, and how did they survive ...

Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...