Some of the world’s most mysterious fossils, soft-bodied creatures preserved in coarse sandstone, owe their survival to an ...

For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly evidence of life, or just odd rock formations? Now, scientists have ...

Looks like limestone’s on the menu for some unknown microbe.

A single ancient jawbone is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about humanity’s forgotten relatives.

A glowing, digital double helix represents the billions of base pairs scientists analyze when sequencing ancient DNA. In 1976, workers excavating a tunnel for the Toronto subway system came across ...

It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia. "Our Russian collaborators said, 'Come here into this ...

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how and where continents break apart.