Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

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

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 ...

New fossils reveal the hand bones of Paranthropus boisei, proving this early human ancestor could make and use tools.

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

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

A discovery deep in the rocky terrain of West Texas is changing what scientists know about dinosaurs that once roamed 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 ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.