Researchers sequenced the genome of a sea spider, revealing it lacks whole-genome duplication seen in related arachnids. This ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef ...

Also known as "angel hair", because of the silky threads the spiders leave behind, “spider rain” is in fact a mass ballooning ...

The first record of termites in a polar region provides key insights into what these ancient forests were like ...

Tiny fossils reveal how water flow shaped the early marine ecosystem TOI Science Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Jun 19, 2025, 20:00 IST Share ...

The fossils are unusual. They’re 25 percent smaller than adult T-Rex fossils in the north. And they’re older — dating to about 69 million years, as opposed to 66 or 67 millions years. The tyrannosaur ...

Fossilised whale along with other marine invertebrate fossils. Credit: Shiladri S. Das Scientists have discovered fossilised vertebrae and ribs of a whale on the bank of a dried, seasonal river in ...

They then rapidly spread to many regions around the world including what is now the UK. But despite being their closest relatives, the first known fossils of pterosaurs don’t appear until around 20 ...

Columnist and Life The surprising silver lining to the recent boom in invertebrate pets From spiders to scorpions, some 1000 different invertebrate species are traded globally as pets. This is bad ...

But hard evidence remained elusive. Until now, the oldest known lepidopteran fossils dated back only to 201 million years ago, leaving a frustrating 40-million-year gap in the record.

In a 2005 Science paper, Schweitzer’s team reported transparent, flexible structures in the fossil that appeared to be blood vessels, some containing dark red spheres that looked like blood cells.

The fossils are around 73 million years old, showing that birds were nesting in the Arctic at least 30 million years earlier than scientists thought. This discovery changes what we know about how ...