This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

Of all the mysteries surrounding dinosaurs, none has sparked more debate than how their era ended—was it a gradual decline or ...

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

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

Instantly recognizable by their spiral shells, these ancient predators were relatives of modern squid and octopuses. Because ...

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

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

Canada's waterways are home to some truly remarkable survivors. Fish that swam alongside dinosaurs still glide through ...

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 ...

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

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...