One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...
Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...
An international team of scientists from UCT has discovered fossil evidence of a resilient ecosystem that played a crucial ...
Dr Claire Browning has led an international team of scientists to uncover fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped ...
An event that seemed to condemn marine life 445 million years ago actually played a decisive role in the rise of the animals ...
SRINAGAR: In a significant step towards conserving Kashmir’s geological heritage, authorities have begun extending protected ...
A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have confirmed.
Their trunklike fossils were discovered in 1843. Yet despite more than a century of speculation, scientists have struggled to ...
Researchers find obelisks, mysterious RNA molecules in human bacteria that challenge our understanding of viruses and ...
The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...
Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed by Indonesian ...