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

In a journey that spans billions of years, we explore the fascinating quest to uncover the oldest fossils on Earth—tiny ...

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

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

Rabat - A team of Moroccan and international scientists has uncovered rare fossils in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. The discovery ...

Fossils from a new species of shark have been discovered in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, increasing our understanding of ancient ...

Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils uncovered in the Grand Canyon show how evolution accelerated in resource-rich waters ...

Station owners hosted scientists for decades at Nilpena, in South Australia, where excavations uncovered rare Ediacaran ...

A few years back, my friend Norm told me that when he was growing up in northern New Mexico in the 1950s and early ‘60s, his ...

Planetary scientists search for ancient impacts to learn about Earth’s early formation. So far, nobody has found an impact ...

A newly discovered 460-million-year-old trilobite showed signs of being shaped and flattened—the first indication that ...