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

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

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

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true ...

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

Humans and our ancestors have been creating tools, art, and everyday objects for millions of years, and each unexpected ...

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

While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are ...

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

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies. Microscopic scales, just ...

A remarkable discovery has been made on the beaches of Portugal, as a dinosaur fossil over 190 million years old has been uncovered from the limestone of the Lower Jurassic. The fossil, which is among ...

A “remarkably well-preserved” fossil discovered in Brazil, dating back 113 million years, is now the oldest ant to have ever been found by scientists, a new study has revealed.. The ancient ...