Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites from ancient Greece have now become inadvertent safe ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ever appeared in stone.

Gold miners in the Yukon are discovering mummified ancient animals from the Ice Age. Paleontologists often gather truckloads of fossils from the mines, but mummies are special and rare. Photos from ...

Why do some ancient animals become fossils while others disappear without a trace? A new study from the University of Lausanne, published in Nature Communications, reveals that part of the answer lies ...

Scientists found ancient bone chemistry that reveals animal health, diet, disease, and environments from millions of years ago.

A groundbreaking new study from Bar-Ilan University shows that one of sleep's core functions originated hundreds of millions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient wolf remains on a small Baltic island where wolves could only have been brought by humans.

A 300,000-year-old wooden stick, one of the oldest weapons ever found, may have been thrown like a boomerang to stun animals. The first weapons used by ancient humans are likely to have been made from ...

Recent research involving ancient marine animals shows how humans and other animals still carry some of those animals' characteristics with us today. Now another study has shown that the earliest ...