Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color ...

The following is a news release from the National Park Service. HAGERMAN – The National Park Service and U.S. Fish and ...

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Later, during the end-Permian supervolcanic event about 252 million years ago, this vast lineage came to a complete evolutionary halt. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adv2549 ...

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa. It's the first time that the Procolophon trigoniceps, which lived in the ...

Fossils are so common in Pennsylvania Bluestone that Glass often points out prehistoric plant fragments and ancient tide ...

Ferns — these ancient, feathery wonders — bring an unmatched sense of grace, mystery and lush texture to any shaded garden. These fascinating plants, with their delicate frond ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

The first reported fossilised stomach contents from a sauropod, belonging to a Diamantinasaurus that lived 95 million years ago, has confirmed a long-held theory of herbivorous behaviour.