New research reveals that Earth’s so-called “Boring Billion” was a time of dramatic change beneath the surface.

The Tremembé Formation itself is the only fossil-rich unit in Brazil from the Late Oligocene that preserves mammal remains. Over the past decades, it has yielded a rich mosaic of life: bats, ...

Ancient lakes hid colossal predators, while massive land mammals clashed in battles for supremacy. Through fossil discoveries and modern analysis, scientists are exposing the terrifying reality of ...

In studying the air and water from the samples, they glimpsed the climate of the ancient Earth, when the planet was warmer than it is today and sea levels were higher — and discovered evidence of a ...

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Since the excavation of the first Lufengosaurus huenei, Lufeng, a county-level city in Southwest China's Yunnan province, has ...

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

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

Paleontologists have identified the 410-million-year-old specimens of Spongiophyton nanum from the Ponta Grossa Formation in ...

Lichens were already widespread more than 410 million years ago, according to a new international study that identifies a ...

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 ...