Imagine the thrill of peering into deep time, only to find a fossil within a fossil — a silent, stone-etched echo of life ...

A peculiar fossil discovery has raised eyebrows in the scientific community, prompting researchers to rethink the boundaries ...

Researchers are developing the biomaterial as a more environmentally friendly alternative to concrete, but any wide-scale use ...

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

Wherever there's dirt there's bound to be ants, but one particular group is so adept at blending in with the ground that they ...

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

Scientists discovered complex life may have started 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought thanks to phosphorus.

A study from the University of Leicester describes a newly identified fossil species that is 444 million years old, with its ...

The research suggests that dirt ants once inhabited the Caribbean islands before vanishing during the Miocene epoch.

He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any known trees. In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the ...