Scientists have found that ancient horsetail plants change water chemistry in surprising ways, offering new clues about Earth ...

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...

Wadisuchus kassabi, an ancient crocodile from Egypt, shows crocodiles lived in the sea, offering insight into reptile ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

In a quiet part of what is now South Australia, more than half a billion years ago, life was locked in battle. The ocean floor teemed with small shelled creatures trying to stay alive as newly evolved ...

It’s hard to picture now, but long before the Sahara became a sea of sand, it was an actual sea—a shallow, tropical lagoon ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

ITHACA, N.Y. — The 93-year-old Museum of Earth in Ithaca could face foreclosure soon. That's according to a report from WBNG ...

Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place ...