Long before dinosaurs ruled the continents and modern crocodiles first appeared, their ancestors were already going through a ...
How life started on our own planet may not seem as interesting as finding evidence of life on Mars or the icy moons Europa or Enceladus. But the search for the first eukaryotes on Earth remains as ...
A rare fossilized vomit was found in Germany. This ancient vomit dates back to the Early Permian period, approximately 290 ...
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 ...
A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth were likely ancestors of the modern sea sponge. The newly identified chemical ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Bruno Becker-Kerber / Harvard University Scientists say they may have found an important clue to the early history ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Aug 30, 2025, 01:53pm EDT Aug 30, 2025, 02:18pm EDT Dickinsonia ...
Paleontologists in Thailand have identified a new long-necked dinosaur species. This plant-eating creature, Uragasaurus ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A life reconstruction of Prototaxites taiti growing in the 407-million-year-old Rhynie chert ecosystem. (CREDIT: M. Humpage, ...
More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...
Scientists used tooth proteins to investigate Homo naledi fossils and found a surprising absence of male markers in a South ...
Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...