New research from Japan's iron-rich hot springs shows how early microbes may have harnessed iron and oxygen during the Great Oxygenation Event.

Over 50 Triassic coelacanth fossils from British museums, long mislabeled, show these ancient fish thrived in coastal habitats.

Dinosaur teeth are not typically the first thing that come to mind when one hears the word ‘humor,’ but who would have guessed that these ancient biters would prove themselves to be time capsules for ...

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a connection ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs acted as ecosystem engineers, shaping vegetation and even the meandering of ri ...