The fossil, known as Charnia, looks more like a fern than anything we would recognize as an animal today. The post Why is ...

How the Chosha praecursor insect may have looked. (Tihelka et al., Nature, 2026) As strange cases of mistaken identity go, ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

A 23-million-year fossil record shows Africa's giant mammals slowly vanished over time because evolution stopped replacing them.

Ancient fossils suggest insects conquered land through a long amphibious phase rather than making an abrupt jump from water to dry ground. A newly identified 324-million-year-old species still carried ...

Ancient fossil beans about the size of modern limes, and among the largest seeds in the fossil record, may provide new insight into the evolution of today's diverse Southeast Asian and Australian ...

We often think of microbes as organisms that live around us, like the Salmonella bacteria and flu viruses that cause illness. But some of our most intimate relationships are with the microbes living ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 280 million-year-old fossil thought to be a well-preserved specimen of an ancient reptile is largely a forgery, according to new ...

A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil named ‘Gus’ has become the world’s most expensive fossil ever sold, fetching $50.1 million at Sotheby’s auction in New York City on Tuesday (July 14). The sale broke the ...

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