Researchers have uncovered a golden-colored, 450-million-year-old fossil of a new arthropod species, preserved in fool’s gold ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Humans and other mammals will in the future vanish from Earth in a mass extinction event linked to extreme temperatures, a ...

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

Some "extremely rare" fossils that date back 450 million years have revealed a new-to-science species. They were retrieved from a famous fossil site in New York State, USA – and best of all? They're ...

This discovery has the potential to bridge gaps in our knowledge of animal life during the late Cambrian period ... as trilobites featured three lobes on their exoskeletons. These sea creatures had ...

Paleontologists have made a fascinating discovery in New York State: fossil remains of an ancient species of arthropod that ...

This iconic body shape has remained virtually unchanged since the Ordovician period ... to access food sources from both water and land. Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus). Photo from US EPA.

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was ...