Anacondas have been among the largest snakes for millions of years, according to fossil evidence from South America. A ...

The sudden appearance of complex animals has led scientists to argue that animals must have a “hidden history”, a period in ...

The microbialite record can tell us a great deal about life on Earth. It gives us clues about where some of the earliest life ...

Around 150 years ago, coal miners in Alabama excavated a mountainside and discarded large quantities of rock containing ...

A 50-million-year-old slab preserves hundreds of freshwater herring—and a window into an ancient landscape unrecognizable ...

The roughly two- to four-pound predator lived alongside dinosaurs some 165 million years ago. A fossil found in northern ...

Las Vegas is known for nightlife, but a nearby desert attraction offers a different daytime outing, with Ice Age history, ...

An ancient crocodile fossil found in the same limestone used to build the Great Sphinx has gotten a new identity.

New research reveals Denisovan fossils in southwestern China alongside stone tools and animal bones, offering the first ...

The Cambrian explosion was a major diversification of animal life that unfolded early in the Cambrian period, which began ...

A first integrated reconstruction of the Vaca Muerta Formation's marine life shows a stable pelagic ecosystem persisting for ...

For thousands of years, humans shaped their world with stone, wood and bone. Metallurgy, the art and science of working with ...