Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows marine life evolved within 2,000 years after the dinosaur killing asteroid impact 66 million years ago. (CREDIT ...

A treasure trove of exceptional fossils from 512 million years ago—including 90 species previously unknown to science—is shining light on a mysterious page in the history of life. Paleontologists ...

An illustration of a member of the Prototaxites genus, which lived between 420 million and 375 million years ago Matt Humpage, Northern Rogue Studios In 1843, Canadian geologist William Edmond Logan ...

A new Triassic crocodylomorph from Gloucester sheds light on early crocodile evolution and pre-extinction ecosystems.

Scientists working in Colombian waters have documented 15 species of comb jellies, translucent marine animals known scientifically as ctenophores, including six not previously recorded in the region.

Life on Earth may have learned to breathe oxygen long before oxygen filled the skies. MIT researchers traced a key ...