For more than a century, the Ediacara Biota has quietly confused scientists. These fossils, dating back around 570 million ...

Scientists discovered exceptionally preserved Ediacaran fossils in sandstone, revealing how soft-bodied organisms survived ...

In 1958, during his senior year at Brisbane Grammar School, he unearthed a fossilised dinosaur footprint that would later become a crucial piece of Australia’s palaeontological puzzle. Runnegar kept ...

The Utah Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently approved the construction of a highway in Washington County. While many ...

Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an unusual chemical process on the ancient seafloor. A recent study has revealed ...

A recent review of over 312 studies has identified dozens of unique uses of roadkill in scientific research. The review, ...

You never really expect to stumble across dinosaur bones while fixing up a parking lot, but that’s exactly what happened at ...

Early hominins in Europe were creating tools from raw materials hundreds of thousands of years before Homo sapiens arrived ...

The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

There are other genes and enhancers related to limb loss in snakes. One of the genes involved is known as the Sonic hedgehog ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean fossils found that the Arabian Sea was better oxygenated 16 million years ago, even though ...

From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed.