While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

In 2007, a team led by Stanford geobiologist Kevin Boyce found that carbon isotopes in the fossils resembled those of fungi — ...

Animal trackers using traditional skills helped to find and identify fossil tracks on the coast of South Africa.

Sometimes, in order to look to the future, it is necessary to take a look at the past. In the field of science, this idea is ...

Plastic bottles, T-shirts, and fast fashion items may become future fossils, as many are only partially recycled, leaving ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

A research team constructed a detailed evolutionary timeline of bacteria, revealing that some microbes used oxygen long ...

In a new study published in Science, researchers from the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) and their international collaborators have ...

There are roughly a trillion species of microorganisms on Earth—the vast majority of which are bacteria. Bacteria consist of ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Researchers have used machine learning, genomic data, fossils and the Earth’s geochemical history to create a timeline of ...

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...