Fossil of coelacanth have been found which are so dramatically different from previous finds, they shatter the theory that coelacanths were evolutionarily stagnant

500 million years ago, the World's first apex predator had highly acute vision, rivalling or exceeding that of most living insects and crustaceans.

Biologists have discovered signs of decompression syndrome – the bends – in several different whale fossils, a finding that could revise the evolutionary history of deep diving.

An international team of researchers has studied the coralline algae fossils that lived on the last coral reefs of the Mediterranean Sea between 7.24 and 5.3 million years ago. Mediterranean algae and coral reefs began to resemble present day reefs following the isolation of the Mediterranean from the Indian Ocean and global cooling 15 and 20 million years ago respectively.

Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, an international research team including paleontologists from the University of Zurich has established based on fossils from the southwestern USA.

New fossil found in England makes pliosaur bigger predator than Tyrannosaurus rex. The giant meat-eating reptile had a bite four times as powerful as T-rex.

Scars on the jaw of a 120 million year old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans.

American scientists have found a shrimp fossil in Oklahoma. The creature in stone is as much as 360 million years old and reported to be the oldest fossil shrimp known to date in the world.

Fossil corals, up to half a million years old, are providing fresh hope that coral reefs may be able to withstand the huge stresses imposed on them by today’s human activity.

Fossil records show that white sharks are most closely related to mako sharks.