The Waukesha Biota was the center for massive paleontological information, and new revelations found the origin of a ...

Researchers have developed a light-emitting sugar probe that exposes how marine microbes break down complex carbohydrates. The innovative fluorescent tool allows scientists to visualize when and where ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

A strange Cambrian fossil named Salterella may hold the key to understanding how early animals first built skeletons. As the ...

Fossilized fish ear stones—known as otoliths—can reveal far more than previously thought. In a recent study, a team of ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

The Gulf of Mexico has long been a crossroads of biodiversity and culture, a region shaped by mighty rivers and powerful ...

With C30 and C31 sterols now validated as biomarkers of ancient sponges, the team plans to expand their search to other ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be much more stable—and robust—than previously thought. Analyzing nitrogen ...

When freshman pre-business administration major Luke Travis picked up a curious rock while exploring the natural areas around Highline Lake State Park, he did not expect it to spark debate among ...

MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million years ago. By analysing chemical fossils in rocks, researchers identified ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...