For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

Deep soils vital for life host an active new microbial phylum, CSP1-3. These microbes may be key to innovative water ...

The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

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