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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Time now for an interstellar flyby. Let's meet a very old comet, 3I/ATLAS. DARRYL SELIGMAN: 3I/ATLAS is probably somewhere between 3 billion to 11 billion years old. So it's presumably been traveling ...

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 ...

High in the remote folds of the Andes, at more than 3,000 meters above sea level, Argentine researchers have unearthed ...