Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

While the non-avian dinosaurs are long gone, sharks are still going strong. They’ve been around longer than trees (which ...

Durham University researchers discover Youti yuanshi, a fossil revealing the ancient ancestors of insects and their evolution ...

Two partial skeletons housed in a Mongolia museum were reexamined by researchers and found to represent a previously unknown ...

As a glaciologist who thinks about ice a lot, rewatching the movie Frozen umpteen times with my six-year-old daughter ...

Ancient proteins and DNA may peg a 146,000-year-old Chinese skull as the most complete fossil to date from Denisovans, a puzzling line of Asian hominids.

A new study emphasizes the significance of preserving fossilized soft tissues. A new study published in the journal Biology ...

By the time the butterflies came, the world was already healing. Roughly 236 million years ago, in the scarred aftermath of ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the ...

Scientists Have Figured out How Extinct Giant Ground Sloths Got So Big and Where It All Went Wrong May 22, 2025 — Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 ...

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 ...