A groundbreaking discovery has been made at the bottom of Florida's Steinhatchee River, where divers uncovered a 500,000-year-old treasure trove of Ice Age fossils. This remarkable find includes ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ever appeared in stone.

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Scientists have revealed that ancient bones unearthed deep in a quarry date back approximately 773,000 years - and could be a ...

A mass extinction created the ecological conditions that set the stage for a dramatic shift in marine life.

Europe's missing dinosaurs mystery solved as new research shows horned dinosaurs lived on the continent but were ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

New research has uncovered a shocking truth, Europe once hosted a variety of horned dinosaurs, previously unknown.

Morocco provide new evidence on human evolution, revealing an African lineage near the origin of Homo sapiens.