Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

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In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

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The work, titled "Loss of Earth's old, wise and large animals," is published in the journal Science. Humans are responsible for the decline of these animals. The review explains how in freshwater and ...

Predatory fish that evolved into the first terrestrial animals on Earth are still revealing insights into the origins of ...

The newly found fossils are 209 million years old and include at least 16 vertebrate species, seven of them previously unknown.

This dust contains nickel. By measuring the amount of nickel in the ocean water, scientists can estimate a ballpark figure as to how old the earth is. These calculations conclude that the earth is ...

A submerged river valley under the Madura Strait was found packed with Homo erectus fossils and other bones submerged since ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

That means Jonathan will turn, at the very least, a whopping 193 years old later this year. During that time, the giant ...