On the shores of the west coast of Australia lies a window to our past: the stromatolites and microbial mats of Gathaagudu ...

A silk-covered mannequin was launched into the stratosphere 33 km above Earth in a project that’s part science experiment, part environmental statement, according to its creators.

A handful of plankton fossils buried in a small chunk of rock show that the oceans were teeming with life before the Late ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Nature. The original story “ 289-million-year-old mummified reptile ...

To solve this puzzle, Thomas Clements, a paleontologist at the University of Leicester, and his colleagues put this supposed ...

Every breath you take—from a deep sigh after a long day to the steady rhythm that carries you through a morning walk—traces ...