Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

Thousands of years ago, an owl’s messy leftovers became prime real estate for some very determined bees. Deep inside a cave ...

It is not every day you get to walk through an Ohio park knowing the ground beneath your feet was once part of an ancient sea ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were buried. While the different strata of sedimentary rock represent periods of ...

Fossils from China reveal complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, reshaping the timeline of early animal ...

Scientists reveal how microbes preserved a 183-million-year-old ichthyosaur as a stunning three-dimensional fossil now ...

Around 540 million years ago, the ocean erupted with complex life: Creatures rapidly transformed from simple, soft-bodied, ...

Palaeontologists at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology have made an enormous breakthrough, revolutionising what we know ...

Scientists at Curtin University have solved a long-standing mystery about how some of the world's best-preserved fossils formed in ancient oxygen-free ocean floor settings. The research, published in ...

Ancient rocks in Henan Province hold a significant paleontological secret. Fossils of the Dongpo Biota, dating back 550 ...