Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...
A bizarre 400-million-year-old fossil may not be a plant, animal, or even a fungus. Known asPrototaxites, this extinct ...
On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...
Researchers emphasize that this fossil confirms that cerapodan dinosaurs underwent diversification well before the Cretaceous ...
About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...
Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...
Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...
Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...
The plant fossils of Mazon Creek are stored in rows of cabinets two stories underneath the Field Museum, where Michael Donovan is the collections manager. No one is going to get rich off selling ...
An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...