When most people think about billionaire collections, they picture walls lined with Picassos or garages filled with vintage ...

A 400-million-year-old plant in New Mexico may have just unlocked the secret to Earth’s forgotten climates — using water that looks like it came from space.

New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

The Tremembé Formation itself is the only fossil-rich unit in Brazil from the Late Oligocene that preserves mammal remains. Over the past decades, it has yielded a rich mosaic of life: bats, ...

Ice cores from Antarctica reveal "snapshots" from 6 million years of Earth's climatic history. Antarctica is far more than just a bucket-list destination for travelers and a home for penguins. It's a ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

Since the excavation of the first Lufengosaurus huenei, Lufeng, a county-level city in Southwest China's Yunnan province, has ...

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in ...

Lichens were already widespread more than 410 million years ago, according to a new international study that identifies a ...