A 410-million-year-old fossil shows ancient lichens were shaping Earth’s surface long before forests took root.

A dinosaur fossil discovery by a researcher from The University of Texas at El Paso may expand the known range of a species ...

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

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

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

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 ...

It's hard believe now, but we weren't always the only hominins walking around on Earth, and in the past, multiple hominins ...

(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 ...

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 ...