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 ...

Unlike the carefully wrapped mummies of ancient Egypt or naturally preserved human remains found in bogs and deserts, dinosaur mummies are created when skin and soft tissues fossilise over millions of ...

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

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 ...

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

British paleontologists recently identified Xiphodragon goldencapensis, a new ichthyosaur species. The skeleton was found on ...

The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s most inhospitable environs.

Scientists recently awakened ancient microbes that had been trapped in ice, some for around 40,000 years. The ancient life ...

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

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