Evolution Diary

Fossil steroids found underground in Oman show that early Earth was the scene of a sea sponge heyday more than 635 million years ago. (…)

A new fossil species of flying reptile with a wingspan the size of a family car has been uncovered by scientists. (…)

A newly discovered fossil from China has shed light on how the turtle’s shell evolved. (…)

Fossils of the earliest known swimming turtles have been uncovered on an island in northwest Britain, scientists reported today. (…)

Palaeontologists have pieced together the fossilised skull of the oldest example yet found of a woolly rhinoceros in Europe. (…)