Skull fossils of amphibian. Credit: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

Skull of 340 million year old animal digitally recreated, revealing secrets...

Two fossils of Brooksella alternata.

Icy waters of ‘Snowball Earth’ may have spurred early organisms to...

Tree stomp in lignite deposits. Credit: Vittoria Lauretano

Decline in CO2 cooled Earth’s climate more than 30 million years...

Fossilised Squalicorax tooth Nr. #07815 from the Jerusalem site. Credit: Omri Lernau

The City of David and the sharks’ teeth mystery

Chuandianella ovata, an extinct shrimp-like crustacean.

Paleonursery offers rare, detailed glimpse at life 518 million years ago

Nierra Negra Volcano on the Galapagos Islands

New model for shield volcano eruption

A "Plume" in the Earth's mantle, i.e. a surge of hot material, caused the Indian Plate to spin off. (Graphic: Alisha Steinberger)

Supervolcano fed from Earth’s mantle caused crustal plates to rotate

Ordovician black shales of the Mount Hare Formation, Road River Group (approximately 465 million years old) rise above conglomerates of the Aberdeen Member. The dangerous rapids of Aberdeen Canyon (Nan Zhak Nadhàdlaii), created by the Peel River cutting through the resistant conglomerates, appear at bottom left. (Image credit: Erik Sperling)

Longest known continuous record of the Paleozoic discovered in Yukon wilderness

Upper molar of Altaynycteris aurora. Credit: Li Qiang

Researchers detail the most ancient bat fossil ever discovered in Asia

Boriana Kalderon-Asael conducts field work at a Middle-Upper Ordovician outcrop near Reedsville, Penn. Credit: Ashleigh Hood

Earth’s climate life story, 3 billion years in the making

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