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 ...

P aleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like ...

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 ...

Yet some regions are far enough from tectonic plate boundaries to contain rocks that have remained unchanged for billions of ...

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

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