An international team of scientists with a variety of backgrounds has found evidence that a boomerang found in a cave in ...

By the time the butterflies came, the world was already healing. Roughly 236 million years ago, in the scarred aftermath of Earth’s greatest extinction event, a hippo-sized herbivore ambled through ...

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Two bits of amber discovered in a lab basement hold ancient evidence of a fungi famous for controlling the minds of its victims.

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil's National Museum offered a glimpse of its renovated building and collection on Monday, two days ...

The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Sphenodraco scandentis is a relative of lizards that would have climbed among the trees in ancient Jurassic forests.

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Researchers uncovered a 220-million-year-old dinosaur with a severe bone infection - now on display at the University of ...