Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

Dinosaur skeletons often dominate museum halls, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue in Chicago to Sophie the Stegosaurus in London. These fossils shape how you picture dinosaurs.

For more than half a century, some of Earth’s strangest fossils looked like they had washed in from an alien world.

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A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

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In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has published the 13th edition of the Nice Classification, introducing changes across all 45 classes of goods and services, effective January 1, ...

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