Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

This advancement could help scientists understand how oceans responded to past warming and oxygen loss. Phys.org reported ...

Scientists Found What May Be Earth's First Mass Extinction and It Was More Catastrophic Than Anyone Realized ...

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers ...

Discovery of a Lystrosaurus embryo inside an egg proves early mammal relatives laid eggs and survived mass extinction through ...

Human societies didn’t just adapt to the planet—they learned to reshape it. From early fire use to today’s global supply ...

A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by ...

A remarkable discovery answers one of the greatest survival stories in Earth’s history—and a decades-old scientific mystery.

New technology has helped a team of scientists uncover more than 20 microscopic fossils, including a species previously ...