MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

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Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every ...

Scientists have discovered a small three-eyed predator called Mosura fentoni. Nicknamed the “sea moth”, the creature lived in the ocean about 506 million years ago. The new study was published on May ...

Scientists recently discovered an ancient whale species distinguished by its “very pointy” teeth and large eyes. It roamed the ocean some 26 million years ago. Image from Museums Victoria’s Research ...