In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Meteorite found in Finland reveals unprecedented phosphorus levels, one of the rarest in the solar system today ...

Their species name is well known, but until recently we’ve understood very little for certain about Homo habilis. Columnist ...