About 99 million years ago, this horned "hell ant" was in the midst of devouring a prehistoric cockroach when it got stuck in ...

In "Ends of the Earth," Neil Shubin travels north and south to explore the frontiers of polar science and history.

Paleontologists have unveiled a 30,000-year-old vulture fossil in Italy, preserved in volcanic ash, showcasing microscopic ...

Mummified fossils are also essentially unaltered. Some mummified fossils include mammoths found frozen in the arctic permafrost, which are preserved by the cold just as a freezer preserves food. In ...

This, so far, oldest and only-described fossil of an Electrotermes ... Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The discovery of this rare fossil was a ...

The serendipitous discovery of an exquisitely preserved fossil near Gulgong in NSW provides a glimpse into the evolution of ...

Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions frozen in time Emma Saaty Over 20 ancient plant species are represented ...

The U.S. military unearthed data about rising sea levels in the early 1950s — and has been closely watching this threat to ...