Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

But in Australia, since the oldest fossilized dinosaur bones come from the Middle Jurassic, about 160 million years ago, “footprint fossils are the only direct evidence our country has of the ...

A dip in sales is causing Texas fashion retailer Fossil to close numerous retail stores as it tries to drive profit. In an outline of its turnaround plan, the maker of watches, handbags and ...

Paleontologists stumbled upon several intact F. brocksi fossils while exploring a research site known as McGraths Flat near the town of Gulgong. After coming up empty at a nearby fossil site ...

Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe. Iguanas have often been ...

20,000-year-old evidence of ancient 'vehicles' discovered in New Mexico Puzzling fossils unearthed in China may rewrite the human story Iraq Is Building a $17 Billion Trade Corridor to Bypass the ...

While modern-day monkeys are quite clever, fossils found near the border of Peru and Brazil ... thought to have only lived in Africa until the paleontologist unearthed the evidence from ...

But since the 1990s, thousands of fossils with feathers and fur have been discovered. In some cases, traces of melanosomes – cell organelles that contain the pigment melanin – can be seen when ...

Researchers estimated its size using fossil evidence and modern shark comparisons, finding that some individuals could have reached 24.3 meters (80 feet) in length. (Artist’s concept). Credit: ...

Yet, this discovery also led to one of the most surprising findings in recent history: Unique features in the CMB could be the first direct evidence we’ve ever had of the multiverse — of an ...