Ancient England snake fossil Paradoxophidion helps explain how modern snakes evolved during warm humid Eocene period.

The lucky discovery of an ichthyosaur was made on what's known as the 'Jurassic Coast.' An example of an ichthyosaur, exhibited at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. A similar ...

Museum fossils in England reveal 200-million-year-old coelacanths, fish that swam alongside the first dinosaurs ...

An extinct snake has slithered its way out of obscurity over four decades after its discovery. The newly described species of reptile, Paradoxophidion richardoweni, is offering new clues in the search ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

In a major move, the Church of England has announced it will cease investments in Shell, BP, ExxonMobil and other top oil and gas companies after concluding all are out of step with worldwide efforts ...

A fossil hunter found a 450,000-year-old mammoth tusk while on a recent visit to a local quarry. Jamie Jordan, 33, was at a quarry in Cambridgeshire, near Peterborough, England, roughly 75 miles north ...

Sometimes, late at night, when her kids have gone to bed and Eleanor Getson is doing the dishes, she is hit with an almost crippling fear. “Glaciers melting. Islands of plastic in the Pacific Ocean.

Researchers in Australia have discovered "the first true millipede" – a 3-inch-long creature with 1,306 legs. But that bug doesn't come close to a recently discovered ancestor from more than 300 ...

Nature reserve workers performing routine maintenance of a lagoon made the "discovery of a lifetime" when they unearthed fossils of a "sea dragon," the largest of its kind ever found in the United ...

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...