In the dense forest near Gréasque, a small commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of southern France, scientists have ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Learn more about the discovery of a giant possum in Big Bend National Park and how it's connected to early primate evolution.

Two recent papers, however, have shed light on what fungi were up to before 400 million years ago, the age of the oldest, non-controversial fungal fossils. In May, a team of researchers published ...

The mesh-like fossil would push back the oldest known animal on Earth by more than 300 million years. But like many claims of very old life, the study is kicking up lively debate.

A study finds tree planting alone can't offset carbon from fossil fuel reserves, highlighting the financial and physical limits of nature-based climate solution ...

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can’t possibly counteract the planet-warming emissions caused by the world’s largest fossil-fuel comp… ...