You’ve heard of carbon dating, but it’s not used for dinosaur fossils. Find out what methods scientists use to determine the ...

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

When freshman pre-business administration major Luke Travis picked up a curious rock while exploring the natural areas around ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies", are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They spend much of their time sunning themselves on rocky ...

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

Or perhaps you’re still fascinated by the science of fossils and prehistoric creatures? Well, it’s not out of the realm of possibilities that you could go out in your backyard right now and scoop up ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Key topicsThe trace is the world’s earliest known “butt-drag” fossil, preserved in South Africa.Researchers link the mark to ...

Halloween has taken over yards and department stores in full force. It’s a rare drive now to anywhere these days where you ...

The findings show that the common ancestor of the extant fungi was about 1.4 to 900 million years ago. That is far earlier ...