The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

Learn how newly-discovered dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye helped researchers reconstruct Scotland’s Jurassic past.

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

A 444-million-year-old fossil with no head, no legs, and perfectly preserved guts is reshaping what we know about ancient ...

This new species of ancient arthropod has been affectionately named Sue and scientifically dubbed Keurbos susanae.

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil was found in volcanic rock. Scientists discovered microscopic feather details preserved in ...

I think this kind of imagination is important. It is incredibly humbling to be forced to reckon with the immensely long ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The team retrieved chunks of sedimentary rock dated between 1.7 million and 2.3 million years old from the Swartkrans limestone cave, which is located in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind — a ...

Unusually small burrows, i.e., tiny tubes that run through the rock in a parallel arrangement from top to bottom, were discovered in marble and limestone of these desert regions. In the desert ...

brocksi fossils while exploring a research site known ... decided to split open a rock. He was shocked to find a nearly perfect fossilized fish inside, complete with soft tissue and an articulated ...