In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...
Researchers have found that fossilized dinosaur eggshells contain a natural clock that can reveal when dinosaurs lived. The technique delivers surprisingly precise ages and could revolutionize how ...
Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant ...
Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a ...
Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...
Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...
Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...
Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.
Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...
Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar system lacks such a planet, scientists don’t know much about how they form. Astronomers ...
Scientists in eastern China uncovered dinosaur eggs packed with giant crystals, revealing unusual fossilization processes and new clues about prehistoric development.