Every so often, a discovery comes along that changes our understanding of the distant past. In the vast landscapes of the ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions ...

Labandeira studies plant fossils that preserve damage left behind ... a vast variety of creatures ranging from dinosaurs and mammoths to millipedes and slugs have evolved to eat leafy greens.

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. President Donald Trump’s first month in office has been dizzying for U.S ...

This is well beyond the duration of many of the common species on the planet. These organisms are known colloquially as “Living Fossils,” and there are examples of them in the plant, animal, and ...

Oil and gas giant BP has again slashed its renewable energy investment and announced more funding for greater fossil fuel production. In a further row back of climate targets the company has said ...

A fossil fuel executive and graduate of MIT, Wright highlighted the labs' legacies and said they will play a role in what he described as this generation's Manhattan Project – a critical ...

Scientists have now successfully tested a miniature laser-powered mass spectrometer that could be taken into space, identifying traces of microbial fossils in gypsum deposits on Earth which formed ...

If it did, how would we prove it? Scientists hoping to identify fossil evidence of ancient Martian microbial life have now found a way to test their hypothesis, proving they can detect the fossils ...

Scientist is proud to have led "the first astrobiology study to involve Algeria," and believes that his findings are a major step towards finding evidence of life on Mars. Scientists searching for ...

You’ll just need to make some space for this three-foot monster. On Tuesday, Lego revealed its latest “Dinosaur Fossil” set, a series of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World sets featuring dino ...

Recently our research team discovered some remarkable fossil traces which might give a hint. These traces were found alongside some of the oldest known human footprints in the Americas at a place ...