Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical evidence suggested.

From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

A project which has created a diverse urban oasis in a dramatic transformation of the National History Museum’s grounds in ...

Hallucigenia was such an odd animal that palaeontologists reconstructed it upside-down when they first analysed its fossils - ...

A study of dog bones across several Iron Age sites in Bulgaria has shown that people ate dog meat. Cut marks on dozens of ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

The Kennedy White House was nothing short of a menagerie, but JFK's favorite was his dog Charlie, the only pet to move into the White House with them. Others came later, and there were a lot. Supreme ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...

A new study refines radiocarbon dating of marine remains and significantly improves the precision with which the human past ...

Extending roughly 670 km along a south-west to north-east axis, the Aravalli Range stretches from the Delhi Ridge through southern Haryana and eastern Rajasthan into northern Gujarat, tapering out ...