Chemical clues preserved in tiny shells reveal that ocean acidification doomed a group of planktonic organisms that have ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

Scientists have spent twenty years and analyzed more than 7,500 marine fossils to answer a question that has quietly troubled ...

In productive marine environments, a square meter (10.8 square feet) of seafloor can be perforated by hundreds to thousands ...

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that some of the most surprising of them might be wind turbine blades. University ...

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

The authors of “A History of Life in 100 Fossils” write about the secrets of the animal kingdom Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Fossils can illustrate evolutionary themes: speciation, evolutionary ...

Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits.

Understanding what happened in these forests 56 million years ago may help humanity recognize similar thresholds before we ...

More than 500 fossils, including remains of mammoths, ancient bison and giant ground sloths, were unearthed beneath Los ...

Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the ...