This is a strange, hybrid book, or a publisher’s folly, whichever you prefer. Instead of translating all of Ivan Klima’s most recent Nineties collection, Intimate Conversations, his publishers have ...

Peel apart layers of coal shale deposited in the Carboniferous and you’ll discover the exquisite beauty of fern foliage that thrived in swamps 345 million years ago, when the most advanced life-forms ...

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One hypothesis suggests the fossils may have been traded for use in ritual or medicinal practices, researchers said. Photo by Jens Lehmann. During an excavation on Morocco’s Mogador Island, ...

Excavations of a Roman site in Mogador, with indication of the place where the fossils were found. Credit: Hans Christian Küchelmann / Becker, von den Driesch, and Küchelmann 2013 These fossils, along ...

Rich brachiopod fossils dating back 470 million years to the Ordovician period were discovered in Zigui county, Central China's Hubei Province. Experts suggest these fossils provide evidence for ...

DOOR COUNTY (WLUK) -- State park leaders are extending a chance for people to start off the new year on the right foot. "I think our incentive was, we all make good intentions, on our new year ...

Brachiopods were evolving in new directions but this did not turn into evolutionary success in terms of the numbers of species, researchers at the University of Bristol, the Open University, and the ...

Sponge, Brachiopod, Comb Jelly, Jellyfish, Nautilus, Horseshoe Crab, Velvet Worm, Lungfish, Coelacanth, Lamprey, Tadpole Shrimp, Martialis Heureka Ant and Bird Louse are some of the oldest animal ...

Researchers have shed new light on the evolution of biomineralized columnar pillars in the shells of small marine shellfish called phosphatic-shelled or linguliform brachiopods. The research, ...

A 515-million-year-old fossil once thought to be the earliest known animal from a group called the bryozoans might actually be a seaweed. Bryozoans, commonly called moss animals, are tiny, coral-like ...

Five hundred million years ago, soft-bodied sea animals used phosphate to build elaborate, protective armor. Then their resource dried up, and evolution moved on. By Natalie Angier In the Cambrian ...