Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning mysteries.

Based on our understanding of how fossils are formed, the Ediacara Biota shouldn’t still be around for us to look at today.

Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the “Biological Big Bang.” ...

A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.

Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

Energy efficiency, energy storage, demand flexing and even reciprocating engines offer alternatives to gas turbines.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...