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A groundbreaking discovery on the Isle of Skye has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil that could completely reshape our ...

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Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex ...

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Scientists have discovered a 167-million-year-old reptile on Scotland's Isle of Skye that appears to be a lizard and snake ...

New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution sheds light on the timelines and pathways of evolution of fungi, finding ...

Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Lead author Dr Roger Benson says the fossil may show that snake ancestors were very different to what we expected ...

Researchers have discovered a mysterious ancient lizard with snake-like teeth in Scotland. Breugnathair elgolensis is one of ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and ...