The planet's trees have seen plenty of history pass by their trunks. In fact, they began to populate Earth 385 million years ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A newly discovered collection of 400-million-year-old bony fish fossils is rewriting the history of vertebrate evolution.

In a groundbreaking find, researchers have discovered traces of ancient microbes in an unexpected location. This stunning revelation could change how we understand the origins of life on Earth. The ...

Dwarfing every living thing around them millions of years ago, Prototaxites have long defied scientific classification ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of ...

How many stories are buried just beneath our feet?

Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first plants began spreading across Earth’s land. This major turning point helped ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.