A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Virginia-based Jefferson Lab is leading a project to transform nuclear waste into usable electricity while also drastically reducing its radioactive life.

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's impression of what Prototaxites may have looked like 400 million years ago. - Matt Humpage Some 400 million years ago, ...

Caribbean reef food webs have compressed by up to 70% over the past 7,000 years as fish diets converge and ecosystems become ...

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has launched a copycat antitrust suit against BP, Shell, Chevron, and Exxon Mobil for ...

Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research makes the case that the ...

The 2026 Formula One season has been flagged up as revolutionary because of the sweeping changes to chassis and power unit ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...