Dominican amber preserves a 16-million-year-old ant queen, marking the first fossil evidence of Hypoponera in the Americas.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl across Earth with body plans that echo deep time. Strictly speaking, ...

From horseshoe crabs to crocodiles, some of these creatures have looked about the same for hundreds of millions of years.

NOAA Fisheries has determined that horseshoe crabs do not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), finding ...

The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Dennos Museum at Northwestern Michigan College has an exhibit about ...

Indonesian villager Supriyanto is visibly frustrated as he discusses the sprawling coal power plant emitting white plumes of ...

Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

Everyday lifestyle choices can add up to significant climate impact when even a small share of the population makes them. Looking across food, transportation, home energy and clothing, the ...

The biggest source of additional CO2 is the combustion of fossil fuels – oil, natural gas and coal – to power vehicles, electricity generation and industries. Each of these fuels consists of ...

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