"The fossil fat now confirms Dickinsonia as the oldest known animal fossil, solving a decades-old mystery that has been the Holy Grail of palaeontology." The Ediacaran biota appeared around 600 ...

AN ANCIENT lizard dating back 205million years has been confirmed to be the “world’s oldest” in a fresh study. The fossilised ...

One of the oldest animal fossils ever found, which dates back 280 million years and was excavated in 1931, is still revealing fresh secrets. The Tridentinosaurus antiquus was found in the Italian ...

Discovered in a quarry near Bristol, this 205-million-year-old fossil is the oldest modern-type lizard ever found.

A now-dead clam nicknamed “Ming” is the oldest living individual animal ever found at 507 years old.

The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is at least 205 million years old and the oldest modern ... proves that the fossil is related to modern anguimorphs ...

An exquisitely preserved fossilised tadpole is the oldest ever discovered by science ... Palaeontologists found the fossil in January 2020 while searching for feathered dinosaurs in Santa ...

Scientists have gone back and forth over the identity of the specimen since the first study on the fossil ... the oldest known lizard, but has pushed back the emergence of these animals by ...

A fossil of the world's oldest tadpole, which coexisted with dinosaurs in the Middle Jurassic about 165 million years ago, is pictured next to a 3D-printed representation of the tadpole and of a ...

It is also the oldest monstersauria found so far. The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Nature and Human Activities in Sanda, Hyogo Prefecture, said on Nov. 25 that the jawbone fossil is the first from ...

Everyone has a past. That includes the millions of species of insects, arachnids, and nematode worms that make up a major ...

A storeroom specimen that changed the origins of modern lizards by millions of years has had its identity confirmed.