A TikTok user's video of him finding a sea fossil on top of a mountain has gone viral, and many people have rushed to claim it as proof of the Great Flood—but paleontologists have different ideas. The ...

Crinoids are marine animals and an ancient fossil group that first appeared about 300 million years before dinosaurs, according to the British Geological Survey. They flourished in the Palaeozoic and ...

Holdfasts from very young crinoids that lived 450 million years ago, fossilized in iron oxide. An international team of researchers discovered the tiny fossils, measuring one to four millimeters ...

My family has come to accept that I am a dogged gatherer of feathers and shells and leaves and stones, and our window sills and bookcases carry the burdens of what I have collected. Among my most ...

Alice Clement receives funding from the Australian Research Council. We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” ...