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

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 ...

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.

World’s oldest fungi, found in fossils, may rewrite Earth’s early history. Fungal fossils, hundreds of millions of years older than previously known, shed light on the evolution of fungi ...

The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.

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 ...

Lacovara says that over the last 17 years, researchers have excavated about 250 square meters of the area and have found more than 100,000 fossils representing over 100 species. “All of them 66 ...