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

Earth is not the only place in the universe fossils can be found anymore. NASA was able to peak into a galaxy and what ...

The bias of the fossil record This helps explain why many ... animals may have lived and died without leaving any physical trace. Their bodies decomposed so quickly, or failed to create the ...

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

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

Discovered in the Yehliu Geopark and Badouzi promontory of the island, the burrows are what are known as trace fossils—preserved imprints left behind by the activities of ancient animals.

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 ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) student Rohan Barnard was out on a farm in the Swartberg Mountains between Calitzdorp and ...

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