Palaeoecology is the study of past ecosystems using palaeontological methods. Fossil data are used to reconstruct interactions between different species and between species and their environment ...

Reefs are usually pictured as underwater rainforests crammed with species, yet the planet’s first large animal‑built reefs tell a quieter story. New work on fossils from Nevada shows that early ...

A study published in The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology reveals that two fossils of brachiopods, marine creatures that lived millions of years ago, were found in a Roman archaeological site ...

The earliest direct fossil evidence of parasitism is found in the shells of marine organisms called brachiopods, from a site in China dating to about 512 million years ago.