The Wollemi pine, dubbed the “dinosaur tree,” was believed extinct for millions of years until its stunning rediscovery in ...

A complete Mixodectes pungens skeleton reveals it was a leaf-eating, tree-dwelling mammal closely related to primates and ...

When we think about living fossils, most of us likely think about crocodiles, alligators, sharks or some other primeval ...

This ant is roughly 13 million years older than the previous oldest-known ants, specimens found in France and Myanmar that were preserved in amber, which is fossilized tree sap. The Vulcanidris ...

The unearthing of a 350 million-year-old tree fossil has opened the door to plants of the past. Five of these fossils were found in New Brunswick, Canada. Discovered close to a quarry, they are ...

Being better able to tolerate cooler temperatures than their rivals, tyrannosaurs grew larger to become the apex predators of ...

Using oyster shell fossils records and combined with high-resolution ... accretionary organisms grow in annual patterns resembling tree rings, forming alternating light and dark bands.

Apr. 16, 2025 — A study suggests that Homo sapiens may have benefited from the use of ochre and tailored clothing during a period of increased UV light 41,000 years ago, during the Laschamps ..

With a distinctive deep-red, bubbly bark and fern-like foliage, the ancient conifer is sometimes called a living fossil, a tree belonging to a 200-million-year-old family. Long known as a global ...

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...