Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Long before humans worried about climate change, the planet experienced a storm that never seemed to end. Scientists believe the Carnian Pluvial Event unleashed greenhouse gases, volcanic eruptions, ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...

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 ...

Researchers have uncovered dozens of long-misidentified coelacanth fossils in British museums, some overlooked for more than ...

A new discovery in China reveals Whiteia anniae, a coelacanth species that reshapes our understanding of these ancient fish.

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

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

New research has revealed how more upright limb postures helped ancient reptiles overcome the biomechanical constraints of ...

The integrity of a 4,000-year-old burial ground will be protected as part of the development of the East West Rail line. The site on Money Hill, between Haslingfield and Barrington in Cambridgeshire, ...

NASA has confirmed a small asteroid named 2025 PN7 is a quasi-moon of Earth. The space rock orbits the sun at a similar pace to Earth, making it appear to follow our planet. This quasi-moon is ...