Want to get close to life millions of years ago? It's easier than you think. Here are 15 amazing fossils you could find ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of red soil and rocky ground. The dry seasons are long, and the wet seasons ...

Long before large reptiles dominated the land, Arthropleura moved through dense Carboniferous forests as the largest known ...

Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature dating to about 307 million years ago that is one of the oldest-known plant-eating land vertebrates, representing ...

A chance discovery on Holy Island reveals how a 350-million-year-old marine fossil became part of medieval legend.

This football-sized creature could grind its teeth like a hard-core plant-eater, back before that was really a thing — and it may be the earliest vertebrate herbivore ever found.

The 300 million-year-old Tyrannoroter heberti had teeth specialized for eating plants, making it one of the oldest species to ...

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is ...

Tyrannoroter had specialized teeth to pulverize plants It lived 307 million years ago during Carboniferous Period Its skull was found in Canada's Nova Scotia province Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists ...

Long before the rise of the mighty dinosaurs on our Earth, the planet was indeed dominated by the mighty ‘giants,’ but the meaning of the word wasn’t quite the same then. We may find large arthropods ...

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Mammoth Cave’s 676 kilometers of tunnels hide more than stalactites—they guard momentous fossils. Here, constant temperature, stable humidity, and eons of isolation preserved sharks with anatomical ...