Researchers say the finding provides new insights into the history of Asia’s rainforests. For the first time, researchers have uncovered fossil remains belonging to a tropical tree species that still ...

A groundbreaking study has revealed that ancient marine organisms may have used giant magnetofossils—massive magnetic ...

This little midgey could stick to rocks under water, something scientists thought only sea creatures could do before now.

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

National Reptile Awareness Day 2025 highlights how reptiles shape ecosystems; they show how nature balances under stress.

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

Ancient teeth reveal that flexible feeders survived past climate shocks, while habitat specialists rapidly declined.

Smithsonian researcher Ingrid Romero studies fossil pollen to reconstruct ancient climates and predict future changes ...

Researchers have unearthed South America’s first amber deposits containing ancient insects in an Ecuadorian quarry, offering ...

The Cairo Fossil Forest is the second oldest in the world. These forests mark a turning point in Earth's history because they ...

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.