In the search for Earth's earliest life, scientists have ventured deep into the ancient past, uncovering fossils that date ...

The search for the oldest fossil on Earth spans nearly two centuries of scientific discovery, from the windswept shores of ...

So when some apparently biological carbon was dated to at least 3.95 billion years ago —making it the oldest remains of life ...

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 million years ago.

Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was ...

Scientists have identified a new species of ancient marine reptile, Plesionectes longicollum, from Germany’s Posidonia Shale.

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have unearthed thousands of microscopic fossils from the iconic Canyon, ...

Proteins from an ancient rhino tooth unearthed in the Canadian Arctic have allowed scientists to look much deeper into the ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian ...

In a lesser-traveled corner of Big Bend National Park, scientists are uncovering one of the most detailed records of ancient marine life anywhere in the world. For Jordan Todes, a PhD student at ...