Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less what happened in the northeastern corner of Siberia, thanks to tissue ...

The white tents are up — commuters have been able to glance at them but it’s the strangers in our midst who wonder what they house.

Why did mammoths and other contemporary mammals disappear? Throughout its eventful existence, Earth has experienced five ...

Eight skiers dead and one still unaccounted for after avalanche swept them away in California mountain.

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“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Danielle Fraser received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC RGPIN-2018-05305). Natalia Rybczynski, who co-authored the study mentioned in this article, ...

Before trees came along some 400 million years ago, our planet’s landscape was dominated by enigmatic, spire-shaped life-forms that towered more than 25 feet above the ground. Their trunklike fossils ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

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A treasure trove of exceptional fossils from 512 million years ago—including 90 species previously unknown to science—is shining light on a mysterious page in the history of life. Paleontologists ...