Organic residues on pots from Northern and Eastern Europe show plants were an important part of the local diet several thousand years ago ...

Scientists have developed two powerful molecular tools that reveal how plants and fungi coordinate one of Earth’s oldest biological partnerships.

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

An extraordinary rhino fossil found in the Arctic is reshaping everything we know about prehistoric life and evolution.

A newly discovered 275-million-year-old species found near the Amazon rainforest in Brazil had a jaw unlike anything seen before — and it’s forcing scientists to rethink when ...

When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

Can the bend of a banana give us insight into cancer? What does the shape of a rice grain have to do with infertility? The ...

New research suggests that large land predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, much earlier than scientists once thought. Fossil evidence from Texas ...

Three courts will soon consider legal battles over EPA’s duty to reduce planet-warming emissions, executive orders designed to boost fossil fuels and an ...

new study reveals that large predators were already hunting big plant-eating animals more than 280 million years ago, ...

Turns out the key to discovering a new type of dinosaur might be a weird toe in an Idaho museum. Or a skull in Switzerland. Idaho State University paleontologists are examining whether these and other ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...