A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

A 30,000-year-old fossilized vulture from Italy has provided scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into how volcanic rock can preserve microscopic feather details. This discovery is the first to ...

A new study from McGill University is reshaping how scientists date dinosaur fossils in Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park ...

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

The fossil record first met Prototaxites in 1843, buried in ancient rocks ... preserved fossils from a site in Aberdeenshire, Scotland — the famed Rhynie chert (a Lower Devonian sedimentary ...

In a new study, Chinese researchers used cyclostratigraphy to date the emergence of the first animals, suggesting that oxygen ...

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

Dinosaurs have captured people’s imagination ever since their bones and teeth were first scientifically described in 1822 by ...