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Photosynthesis originated a billion years earlier than we thought, study shows

"Enantiornithes" Tiny fossil of a prehistoric baby bird

127 million year old baby bird fossil sheds light on avian...

Calatayud-Daroca Basin in Central Spain.

Fossilised plant leaf wax provides new tool for understanding ancient climates

This is a roundnose grenadier at 1,300m off the Hebrides, Scotland.

Deep-sea fish choose habitat according to genotype, new research says

Fossilized bubbles and cyanobacterial fabric from 1.6 billion-year-old phosphatized microbial mats from Vindhyan Supergroup, central India.

Tiny bubbles of oxygen got trapped 1.6 billion years ago

Transmitted-light, cross-polarized-light, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of starch-bearing Lagenicula-type megaspore from the Baode section, north China. AL Details of the starch grain in D (rectangle) in transmitted light. Note the hilum (small depression) in center, and Y-shaped fissures.

Permian carbo-loading: How starchy treats helped build an ancient world

Euoplocephalus

Flipside of a dinosaur mystery: ‘Bloat-and-float’ explains belly-up ankylosaur fossils

A tiny extinct rail (30-40g) is overshadowed by a regular duck.

Miniscule flightless birds have lived in New Zealand’s wetlands for millions...

This is crushed dentine from a Woolly Mammoth for DNA extraction.

Complete genomes of extinct and living elephants sequenced

Cremastosperma brevipes, French Guiana.

Geological change confirmed as a factor behind the extensive diversity in...

Hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.

Life in world’s driest desert seen as sign of potential life...

This is the sampling site Lomas Bayas in the core region of the Atacama.

Life under extreme drought conditions

Ground-running bird model may predict bipedal dinosaur locomotion.

Locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs might be predicted from that of ground-running...

Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii -- 400 million-year-old fossil plant stem from Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Plants colonized Earth 100 million years earlier than previously thought

The fossil Waptia from the Burgess Shale, Canada

Soft tissue fossil clues could help search for ancient life on...

Footprints of mammoths, dated to 43,000 years ago, are seen in a portion of a trackway that was uncovered by researchers in 2017 in an ancient dry lake bed in Lake County, Oregon.

Ancient trail of Columbian mammoths uncovered in south-central Oregon

When it comes to extinction, body size matters

This is seismic reflection data.

Tiny fossils, huge slides: Are diatoms the key to Earth’s biggest...

More than 100 species of cockroaches were used in the new genomic study.

Cockroach ancient geographic and genomic history traced back to last supercontinent

insect fossilized in amber

Researchers uncover New Zealand’s first fossils preserved in amber

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