Scientists have discovered the oldest known fossils on Earth, 3.7 billion-year-old microbial remnants, uncovered in Greenland ...

Charles Darwin worried that the fossil record looked strangely abrupt, with complex animals appearing in a geological instant instead of gradually unfolding over deep time. A new idea about how ...

A remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have shifted over time. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly dated ...

When he shook hands with the amateur fossil hunter in 1988, Richard Hebda, head of botany at the Royal B.C. Museum, was not ...