An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the United Kingdom (UK) has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

Two researchers snorkeling in a subterranean stream in Texas discovered fossils from the Late Pleistocene epoch, revealing new details about what lived in this ancient ecosystem. When you purchase ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-water corals in the Galapagos region vanished for more than 1,000 years before ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...

At the height of a planetary freeze around 700 million years ago, ocean temperatures are most likely to have been –15 °C — much colder than any sea temperature recorded today or known to have occurred ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-water corals in the Galápagos region vanished for more than 1,000 years before ...