Balhuticaris voltae, a Cambrian arthropod that faced rejection but became a viral sensation thanks to a fossil meme

Or, How I Helped NASA Scientists Find a Polar Bear on Mars

The Earth wasn’t always this nice!

A handful of footprints from ancient Australia is rewriting the story of how life moved onto land

A new study explains why the fossil record skips over so much ancient life — and what shrimp can teach us about decay.

New study uncovers five distinct dinosaur taxa , three of which had never been recorded in the Nenjiang Formation before

So this next recitation is something like an affirmation of the chemistry of communication … PERFUME. Questions?

The ancient peoples of Latin America did us all a tremendous favor by saving avocados from extinction and gradually making them tastier…

A newly discovered 113-million-year-old fossil of a Brazilian ‘hell ant’ from the Lower Cretaceous rewrites the evolutionary history of…

Mother Nature’s calculated risk

Recent study describes a new ancient mammalian fossil with a unique tooth replacement that lived over 140 mya

A new study challenges decades of assumptions about the dinosaurs’ final days — and why their fossils are so hard to find

An epic evolutionary tale of icy oceans, whale-driven arms races, and 150 million years of cephalopod innovation!

Each time you crack your back or stretch after a scroll session, you’re echoing an epic evolutionary drama that began 500 million years ago…

And what their survival story can teach us today

or a possible reason to be wary of conversations with strangers

Their chatter isn’t just noise — it might hold clues to the origins of human language

New research shows hydrothermal activity at ground zero played a surprising role in post-impact ocean life

Discovery in China of tools called Quina scrapers suggests the people of East Asia were as inventive and flexible with technology during…

TWO SPECIES,ONE CONTINENT : WHAT ANCIENT FOSSILS REVEAL ABOUT US?

The unique biology & evolutionary history of these ancient cousins of us placentals, reveal fascinating insights into mammalian survival…

How a new study unlocked decades of hidden data from preserved shark and ray jaws in museum collections

The surprising science behind the ocean’s largest shark — and why it couldn’t last

Defending Prehistoric Truth: How AI Threatens the Art and Accuracy of Paleontology