The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of ...

It’s a show-down as old as time: grand behemouth of a marine mammal versus ancient monster of a shark. These shark–cetacean trophic interactions span eons, preserved as bite marks in our fossil record ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan ...

In 2017, farmer Nigel McGraths stumbled on something remarkable: He was removing rocks from a field to make ready for tilling when he came across what appeared to be a leaf embedded in a rock. The ...

A huge study of fossil apes clarifies which extinct species are most closely related to humans. But it can’t resolve one of the most controversial questions in human evolution: whether the last common ...