MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed ancient magnetic fossils that suggest the existence of a long-lost creature capable of navigating using Earth’s magnetic field. This revelation ...

Our Earth’s atmosphere was not always the safe haven it is today. New research, informed by ancient ocean fossils, provides a glimpse into a time when our planet’s atmosphere was inhospitable and ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...

What can fossil records teach scientists about ancient ecosystems and marine environments? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a species different from that of the famous fossil Lucy providing further proof ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate on the nature of time and the purpose of science. A lithograph illustrating ...

The vampire squid genome shows it kept ancient features shared with squids, while octopuses gained major chromosomal changes.