Scientists have found that ancient horsetail plants change water chemistry in surprising ways, offering new clues about Earth ...

Wadisuchus kassabi, an ancient crocodile from Egypt, shows crocodiles lived in the sea, offering insight into reptile ...

Learn more about Wadisuchus kassabi, the crocodile’s ancient cousin that thrived in prehistoric oceans and rewrites this ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the ...

Fungi’s evolutionary roots stretch far deeper than once believed — up to 1.4 billion years ago, long before plants or animals ...

British museum fossils, misidentified for over a century, are now known to be ancient coelacanth fish. This discovery dramatically increases the number of known specimens from the British Triassic ...

It’s hard to picture now, but long before the Sahara became a sea of sand, it was an actual sea—a shallow, tropical lagoon ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...