Dave’s Down to Earth Rock Shop has been around since 1970, but the contents of its basement have witnessed all of human history and another three billion years beyond that. Featuring gemstones, ...

Apatosaurus is one of the most famous dinosaurs ever discovered, yet parts of its story remain surprisingly unsettled. Fossils from the Late Jurassic reveal a giant built for power and scale, but key ...

Despite growing into the largest animals ever to walk on land, sauropods began life small, exposed, and alone. Fossil evidence suggests their babies were frequently eaten by multiple predators, making ...

Babies and very young sauropods – the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to ...

It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a behemoth weighing perhaps 60 tons that was a member of the long- ...

Research Associate, Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney We know what to do to tackle the climate crisis: replace fossil fuels with clean energy technologies such as solar, wind, ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

A treasure trove of exceptional fossils from 512 million years ago—including 90 species previously unknown to science—is shining light on a mysterious page in the history of life. Paleontologists ...

Timothy G. Bromage receives funding from The Leakey Foundation. Blood tests are useful tools for doctors and scientific researchers: they can reveal a lot about a body’s health. Usually, a blood ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer. Technofossils, anything that is man-made, including new materials, will persist in the ...