Chemical clues preserved in tiny shells reveal that ocean acidification doomed a group of planktonic organisms that have ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

Scientists reconstructed Jurassic insect calls and found ultrasound evolved tens of millions of years before bats appeared.

In productive marine environments, a square meter (10.8 square feet) of seafloor can be perforated by hundreds to thousands ...

Scientists are searching some of Earth’s oldest rocks for tiny fossils that could reveal how simple microbial life made the ...

Fossils from the Omo Kibish formation in Ethiopia were once thought to be around 195,000 years old, but new analysis of ...

Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits.

Many of today's everyday items are destined to become fossils after millions of years, but scientists have suggested that some of the most surprising of them might be wind turbine blades. University ...

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the ...

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

Letter: Jill White responds to an editorial calling for fossils to be given legally protected national-treasure status ...

Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the ...