Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

Travelers can dig up 66-million-year-old dinosaur fossils in New Jersey or mine for diamonds at an Arizona state park. See ...

Scientists are suggesting there may be a brand new type of life — or, at least, that one existed back in the day. In a new, ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

The mountain pygmy possum, a tiny nocturnal marsupial, was once known only from Ice Age fossils. Today, we know where its ...

NOVA: When Whales Could Walk Wednesday, April 2 at 9:00 pm In Egypt’s Sahara Desert, massive skeletons with strange skulls ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles, resembling “a small bear trap attached ...

Ancient Genomes Reveal an Iron Age Society Centred ... research has discovered for the first time clear links between fossils of the iconic Australian dingo, and dogs from East Asia and New ...

Across the world, eerie "death pits" have entombed thousands of creatures, creating fossilized mysteries that scientists are ...