A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting what we know about ancient life. Discovered in Harvard’s museum drawers, ...

The discovery, in a bizarre animal not closely related to birds, could change how scientists think about the origin of ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived long ago. Proteins, a cell's molecular machinery ...

The weed is notoriously difficult to eradicate and has become an increasingly common issue on housing developments across the UK ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using ...

Plant shop Plantosaurus REX in Butte is hosting its third annual REX Fest on July 6, featuring workshops, a vendor market, kids' activities, and fossil presentations.

A new study of ancient fossil trails pushes the origins of complex life deeper into Earth’s history, before the Cambrian Period began.

Among the fossils, they found the first ever hominin remains from submerged Sundaland, and one of them belonged to H. erectus.

These 545-million-year-old fossil trails just rewrote the story of evolution Date: June 27, 2025 Source: University of Barcelona Summary: A groundbreaking study suggests that the famous Cambrian ...

World-first lithium plant could help US meet 50% of demand using oilfield water This is the world’s first site to extract, concentrate, and convert (EC²) lithium in a fully integrated process ...

Gypsum deposits formed on Mars could conceal evidence of past life on the planet — microbes similar to the first life that formed on Earth four billion years ago. But to test this hypothesis, we need ...