Fossil egg found in Antarctica suggests marine reptiles laid eggs, challenging previous beliefs about ancient life.

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

A tiny ancient reptile just revealed the moment breathing as we know it began — and it changed life on Earth forever.

Archaeologists found 115,000-year-old human footprints where they shouldn't be—and they just might rewrite the history of ...

Mammals and dinosaurs coexisted on Earth until a catastrophic event 66 million years ago killed 75% of life on the planet.

Scientists have found evidence of wildfires that occurred 237 million years ago and shaped ancient Triassic ecosystems.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new piece of research shows that the world’s oldest-known dice came from North America 12,000 years ago. The rudimentary games of chance were used ...

Scientific knowledge is constantly updated, revised, or reshuffled as new insights emerge. One particular fossil was thought to be the world’s oldest octopus. But it turned out to be a completely ...

I first read Lulu Miller’s Why Fish Don’t Exist in 2024. Interspersed with her personal exploration of finding purpose, ...

Quick Take The History of Fish What is Eosteus chongqingensis? Another Discovery Despite everything I learned, I still had questions: What did fish look like before the ray-finned and lobe-finned ...

Pohlsepia mazonensis, a visually underwhelming fossil from Illinois, fundamentally broke our understanding of cephalopod evolution. Described in 2000 and hailed as the oldest known octopus in the ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, ...