Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Researchers reveal Prototaxites, a giant Devonian fossil, was not a fungus or plant but a unique extinct lineage.

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, date back to the Late Devonian period, a time when early seed plants were just beginning to evolve. Unlike ferns ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

A Fossil First: Scientists Find 1.5-Million-Year-Old Footprints of Two Different Species of Human Ancestors at Same Spot Nov. 28, 2024 — More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming ...

The fossils, found in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, date back to the Late Devonian period, a time when early seed plants were just beginning to evolve. Unlike ferns, which release ...

The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

Credit: Unsplash/Rachel Loughman Nutritious food is always important, whether for an infant or a senior, but it’s especially critical for ...