Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...

Life on Earth began in a way that still boggles the mind. Around 4.5 billion years ago, a chemical process called abiogenesis occurred, where life emerged from non-life. Imagine a hot, watery mix of ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

Around 230 million years ago, Earth entered a strange and turbulent period now known as the Carnian Pluvial Event. Geological evidence suggests global rainfall increased dramatically for nearly two ...

The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

A fossil jaw found in Ethiopia shows Paranthropus ranged far north, challenging long-held ideas about early human relatives ...

Scientists settle a major evolutionary mystery as new research reveals the comb jelly, not the sea sponge, was the first ...