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Ancient wasp may have used its rear end to trap flies

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to immobilise other insects

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Bizarre fossil may have been an entirely new type of life

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Two-fingered dinosaur used its enormous claws to eat leaves

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Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like

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Dozens of dinosaur footprints found in rock at Australian school

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Illustrator?s signature must be included in all reproductions Carboniferous forest. Illustration of a flooded forest containing primitive plant species and fauna that existed during the Carboniferous period (360 to 286 million years ago). At bottom centre is a Hylonomus reptile. Its prey, a giant dragonfly (Meganeura monyi) is at left. The plants included Lepidodendron, an ancient lycopod also known as a scale tree. The Carboniferous forests gave rise to the coal deposits that fuel industry today.

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Gripping account of how plants and animals shaped each other

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Surprising fossils suggest early animals survived outside of water

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Giant megalodon sharks may have sparred with their jaws

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Quail-sized feathered dinosaur may be the earliest known bird

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Amazing plesiosaur fossil preserves its skin and scales

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs that lived during the same period

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Ancient relative of geese is the earliest known modern bird

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Giant sloths lived alongside humans in South America for millennia

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Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery

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Punk and Emo fossils rock our ideas of how ancient molluscs looked

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