Researchers at the Michael Sars Centre at the University of Bergen have produced the first complete 3D reconstruction of the ...

A reexamined infant jawbone from the Ethiopian highlands, discovered in 1981 at Garba IV in the Melka Kunture complex, is ...

A small group of distant worlds may hold the clues to life beyond Earth. Astronomers searching for life beyond Earth have ...

Image: Conceptual illustration of a possible signal from an alien civilization reaching Earth.Detecting such signals — or ...

Scientists have discovered “alien-like” water inside a 400-million-year-old plant, revealing unusual chemistry that could ...

Marine fossils discovered near the summit of Mount Everest. (Image: X/@MAstronomers) Marine fossils near Everest's summit show ancient ocean origins. Everest's summit rocks are marine limestone from ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws full of clusters of spiky teeth.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these ...

Cambrian Period fossils date to about 512 million years ago Fossils show invertebrates of various shapes and sizes They reveal animal legs, gills, guts, eyes and even nerves Jan 28 (Reuters) - ...

An extraordinary 512-million-year-old fossil site has been discovered in southern China, preserving in vivid detail almost an entire ecosystem from a time shortly after Earth’s first mass extinction ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including ...