A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.

The Little Dal reef is mostly "just a streaky set of laminated things ... that were previously identified as evidence of ancient sponges extracted from 635-million-year-old sediments in Oman.

A collection of 27 1.5-million-year-old bone tools discovered ... as evidenced by a new find in Tanzania. Researchers discovered 27 now-fossilized bones that were shaped into hand tools an ...

The facial remains are not those of Homo antecessor, an archaic human species whose roughly 900,000-year-old remains were previously ... was discovered in 2022 and is between 1.1 million and ...

At 1.5 million years old, the trove ... our ancestors were intentionally—not rarely or sporadically—mass producing bone tools. “One of the genuinely exciting things about the paper is ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

"They walked around in huge groups eating vegetation — they were ... actually found a mammal jaw on the north coast of the Isle of Wight," he said, speaking about a 30 million-year-old bone.