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

A river in Australia may have been flowing for 300 to 400 million years, long before dinosaurs existed. How did the ancient Finke River survive dramatic geological changes for so long?

Dinosaurs dominate the imagination, but Earth’s deep history is crowded with other rulers, from armored fish and giant insects to saber-toothed hunters and whales shaped for warm ancient seas. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.