This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

Archaeologists discovered a 6400–6100 B.C. sandstone figurine in Azerbaijan’s Damjili Cave, marking a rare find from the ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers succeeded in reconstructing the history of life and environments that was previously ...

Scientists injected a fragment of 40,000-year-old genetic material into laboratory mice, revealing skeletal changes from a ...

For most organisms on Earth, rocks are objects, not food. But for one oddball microbe, desert limestone seems to have been on the menu. Whether or not this mysterious form of life still exists or went ...

"We'll be the first to see the ice-free peaks. This has ecological implications for plants and animals. And it's a symbolic ...

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry ...

Scientists thawed ancient soil in the lab and tiny nematodes, Panagrolaimus kolymaensis, “woke up” after being frozen for ...

Recent observations from 2025 have sparked intrigue in the scientific community as unusual signals detected over Mars’s North ...

Researchers recreated Martian conditions in a laboratory using E. coli bacteria and pure water ice. The samples were frozen ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.