A creature whose relatives evolved roughly 500 million years ago — before dinosaurs, before trees — was sitting on the ocean floor off South Korea, misidentified as something it wasn’t. Two biologists ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

A team of biologists just discovered a new species of chiton, a marine mollusk that clings to rocks and feeds on algae.

Prototaxites taiti’ was not a fungus but an extinct eukaryotic lineage, a study reveals, resolving a mystery that as perplexed experts for centuries.

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Mystery Fossil Challenges What We Know About Early Land Life, A Major Rewrite for Evolutionary History ...

During photosynthesis, trees convert the carbon dioxide to sugars and in doing so produce oxygen as a biproduct, which is vital for life on Earth. “Trees draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and ...

For 165 years, the giant fossil Prototaxites taiti puzzled scientists. Standing 26 feet tall, it may belong to an unknown ...

Scientists Discover a New Form of Life Standing 26 Feet Tall ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.