Ancient forests may have fueled a deep-sea oxygen boost nearly 390 million years ago, unlocking evolutionary opportunities ...

Some 390 million years ago in the ancient ocean, marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research ...

This week, a 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and ...

By studying prehistoric rocks and fossils emerging from the side of Mount Ashibetsu in Japan, researchers have precisely refined the timing and duration of Ocean Anoxic Event 1a (OAE 1a), an ...

Scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric oceans have flocked to an unlikely place: western Kansas. And today, the fossils embedded in these Great Plains could hold clues about the future of life.

More than 500 million years ago, something in the ocean changed. Some creatures evolved to build their own hard-shelled exterior. Others grew to sizes never seen before as the amount of oxygen on ...

An 11-year-old girl on a fossil hunt with her father uncovered a chunk of jawbone, leading paleontologists to later identify the bones as belonging to a previously unknown titan of the prehistoric ...

Found on the southern coast of Australia, the species could fill gaps in scientists' understanding of baleen whale evolution ...

The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...

From the southeastern shores of Australia, a new fossil has just given us a never-before-seen species of prehistoric baleen ...

"It's only the chosen few, the vast minority of all whales that have ever lived and died in the oceans over millions of years ...