Modeling of average (left) and minimum surface temperatures during the Pennsylvanian Period. Top row shows low carbon dioxide and maximum glaciation in the southern hemisphere (Mattheus et al). A new ...

Remnants of decaying tiny animals were colonized by others in an interspecies interaction dating back 480 million years. By Asher Elbein The bodies of the dead drift to the bottom of the ocean, where ...

A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists report Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The discovery allows ...

Step back in time to survive and explore life during the Paleozoic era.

The dinosaurs first appeared on Planet Earth around two hundred and forty five million years ago. That's a staggeringly long time in human terms, but geologically, the dinosaurs were effectively ...

Looks like “Jaws” can get an origin story. Paleontologists discovered fossils of an ancient “shark” species now known to have swam the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago during the Paleozoic ...

A tiny piece of nearly 300 million year old preserved skin belonging to a reptile was found in an Oklahoma cave in January, scientists say Satellite View Image from ...