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, ...

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 ...

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

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

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.