518-million-year-old fossil reveals vertebrates once had four eyes and extra organs that later shaped evolution.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

A newly described Patagonian fossil reveals the evolutionary origins and global spread of the tiny alvarezsaur dinosaurs.

A research team led by Dr. Márton Rabi from the Biogeology Department of the University of Tübingen, together with Máté ...

In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing—a mystery known as the “Great Unconformity." ...

Indigenous people in Papua, Indonesia, have helped scientists track down two animals that were thought to have gone extinct thousands of years ago: a relative of Australia’s greater glider and a ...

A resurrected ancient enzyme is helping scientists test how reliably Earth’s oldest rocks record signs of life.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers ...

What did the face of our ancestors look like three million years ago? Our international team has answered this question by ...

From health spas to film storage, salt mine caverns have been put to use in surprising ways—and they’re now poised to contribute to the generation and storage of clean energy.

The purchase of substandard coal using a faulty tendering process has become news lately. This enormous financial loss to the country indicates the urgent need for the Government to pass stronger ...