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

Scientists have identified Uncus dzaugisi, the oldest ecdysozoan fossil from the Precambrian period, confirming long-held ...

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

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

Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role ...

Arthropods belong to an evolutionary branch – the ecdysozoa – that contains about half of all animal species, and the earliest fossil evidence of the group now dates back 550 million years ...

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

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