Ancient trees may have played a key role in regulating Earth's climate during the last ice age—by 'breathing' less ...

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

At the edge of East Antarctica, where the wind howls through a white emptiness and the air bites harder than steel, ...

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 ...

For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly ...

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 ...

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 ...

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

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