The first animals with mineral skeletons changed the way sediments develop on Earth forever, according to new research. Sediments are often modified by the mineral-rich skeletons of living organisms.

These included brachiopods, which lived in shells resembling those of clams or cockles, and animals with jointed, external skeletons known ... years ago in the early Cambrian and thrived ...

The site was filled with remains of animals including cats and monkeys still wearing collars strung with shells, glass, and stone beads. Marta Osypińska, a zooarchaeologist of the Polish Academy ...

How have animal skeletons adapted over thousands of years of evolution? In this short film for primary schools Martin Hughes-Games looks at the skeletons of animals and humans and explains how and ...