A small, fossilized lizard, hidden in a museum cupboard for decades, has been identified as a significant find. Discovered in ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A tadpole fossil found in Argentina, dating back at least 161 million years, is the oldest that has ever been discovered. The fossil was found back in January 2020, with news of the discovery ...

"Oldest Animal Ever." Guinness World Records ... "First Cross-Matched Floating Chronology from the Marine Fossil Record: Data from Growth Lines of the Long-Lived Bivalve Mollusc Arctica Islandica." ...

The tiny skeleton, unearthed from Triassic-aged rocks in a quarry near Bristol, is at least 205 million years old and the oldest modern-type lizard on record. Recently, the University of Bristol ...

The history of a major animal group, composed of millions ... A team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan in the fossil record and the only one from the Precambrian period.

But a UC Riverside-led team has now identified the oldest known ecdysozoan ... "Like many modern-day animal groups, ecdysozoans were prevalent in the Cambrian fossil record and we can see evidence ...

“It's not only the oldest tadpole known ... The results were published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The fossil is strikingly similar to the tadpoles of today — even containing remnants ...