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

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 ...

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.

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a young ant. Insidiously, the fungus orchestrated the ant’s demise. The ant ...

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 ...

Sharks are one of the oldest species of animals still alive today. While they may not be the massive megalodons that lived ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...