New evidence suggests some fossils as the oldest known sign of life on Earth, and scientists may have a way to speed up the process of carbon neutralization in the ocean! Hosted by: Hank Green ------- ...

Ancient fossils reveal the oldest known vertebrates had four eyes. Remarkably preserved fossil specimens show they could see ...

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with David Bottjer, Earth Sciences professor with the University of Southern California, about the discovery in China of what's thought to be one of the earliest fossils of a ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

A preserved footprint found more than 60 years ago in a sandstone quarry has been identified as the oldest-known dinosaur ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microfossils of a globular spore connected to a T-shaped filament excavated in an Arctic region of northwestern Canada represent the oldest-known fungus, a discovery that sheds ...

Researchers may be able to recover molecular traces in fossils of extinct species. These studies of new ways to explore these traces aim to expand our knowledge of the past of life on Earth, since DNA ...

Paleontologists, including researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN), have described the oldest insect larval feeding tunnels inside leaves, also known as leaf mines, along with ...

Meet the evolutionary hipster that beat Portland to weirdness by 30 million years. We’ve just found North America’s oldest beaver fossils. They’re rewriting everything we thought about these ...