Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...
Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...
Molecular ‘fossils’ offer microscopic clues to the origins of life – but they take care to interpret
ATP synthase is an enzyme that has been using phosphate to generate life’s energy for millions of years. Nanoclustering/Science Photo Library via Getty Images The questions of how humankind came to be ...
New research has transformed scientists' understanding of how spectacular fossils with delicate soft tissues form. New research at the University of Leicester has transformed scientists' understanding ...
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field. By Jack Tamisiea On a sandstone cliff in South ...
A critical feature of many multicellular lifeforms on Earth are hard, biological structures, such as animal bones and snail shells that are made from minerals. Tiny fossils recently discovered in ...
Today, rock wallabies are seen as secretive cliff-dwellers that rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different story. New research suggests rock ...
Molecular ‘fossils’ offer microscopic clues to the origins of life – but they take care to interpret
(THE CONVERSATION) The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia. But to answer these questions, scientists must first ...
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