A newly discovered velvet worm species is the first ever found in South Africa's arid Karoo region. In March 2022, ...

In a remarkable find, 160-million-year-old blue-stain fungi fossils have been unearthed in China's Jurassic Tiaojishan ...

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it ...

Scientists dated a Scottish fossil, Westlothiana, to 346 million years ago, revealing its role in early land animal evolution ...

A University of Alabama study found that 65% of the total warming trend between 1895 and 2023 was due to increasing ...

Dust storms are producing deadly hidden air pollution by transforming mineral grains into chemical reactors, impacting health ...

Sceye (pronounced “sky”), the helium-filled aircraft is designed to gather information on methane leaks that satellites miss.

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

From its vantage point outside Earth's atmosphere, more than 36,000 km above Earth's surface, the Copernicus Sentinel-4 ...

A 160-million-year-old fungus fossil discovery in China is rewriting the history of ancient ecosystems and their evolutionary ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we ...

May 1, 2025 — Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study reveals that part of the answer lies in the body itself. The research shows that an ...