Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

Some 40 million years before the dinosaurs dominated Earth, a different sort of apex predator roamed the Gondwana ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Echinoids remained only a very minor element of the benthos throughout the Palaeozoic and are never common as fossils. Although all had a lantern of some sorts it was not a particularly strong or ...

Sarıgül, Volkan 2018. New archosauromorph fragments from the Dockum Group of Texas and assessment of the earliest dinosaurs in North America. Historical Biology, Vol. 30, Issue. 8, p. 1059. Marchetti, ...

Sydney-headquartered Melbana Energy has been awarded a key petroleum exploration permit in the Dampier sub-basin region of ...

Ngamugawi wirngarri is a new species of coelacanth, an ancient fish species that has lived on Earth for over 400 million ...

Deposited some 248 million years ago, tight gas formations are typically found in Palaeozoic formations. Over time, the rock formations have been compacted and have undergone cementation and ...

This not only marked the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic, it was such a serious catastrophe that it is used as the marker of the end of a geologic era, the palaeozoic era.

German prog metal favourites The Ocean have announced the impending end of their current lineup.The collective, founded by ...

Today, the living coelacanth Latimeria (Sarcopterygii: Actinistia) is an iconic, so-called ‘living fossil’ within one of the ...

This is a synapomorphy for the crown group of the Echinoidea, and is also true for all post-Palaeozoic echinoids, bar one, Tiarechinus. By contrast almost all Palaeozoic echinoids have a test which ...