Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Something unusual keeps turning up in marine sediments. These are large crystals of magnetite, formed by biology rather than ...

Learn more about ancient giant kangaroos and the previous research claiming they were too heavy to hop. A new study finds ...

Divers exploring the world’s longest known submerged cave system in Mexico have uncovered ancient Maya human remains alongside the bones of Ice Age animals. The find is being described as one of the ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...

An analysis of the bones and teeth of ancient mammoths (Mammuthus) has identified some of the microorganisms that lived in the animals’ mouths and bodies more than one million years ago. The study, ...

Researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMN) have identified a new species of rhino that once roamed Canada's High Arctic 23 million years ago. The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal ...

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions of years ago in jellyfish and sea anemones, among the earliest creatures ...