Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

For much of the twentieth century, a prevailing view in marine biology held that most major marine groups originated in sunlit, shallow waters and later colonized the deep sea. This perspective ...

More than half a billion years ago, the Grand Canyon was not the arid landscape we know today but a shallow, tropical sea teeming with strange life. Now, scientists have uncovered a remarkable fossil ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Near the top of the world’s highest peak, climbers sometimes spot seashells and delicate crinoid stems locked inside pale limestone, a jarring sight in the thin, frozen air. Those fossils formed on an ...