The new finds help scientists reconstruct ancient sea levels, water temperatures, and ecosystems from millions of years ago.

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In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales around the world. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence of this behaviour being described in ...

Three-hundred-million-year-old fossil creatures serve as “natural thermometers” and hold clues to Earth’s past and future climate, believes Texas A&M University professor Ethan Grossman, who’s been ...

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" ...

Wadisuchus kassabi is both a new species and the first member of a new genus, or group of species that share physical similarities and an evolutionary line. The species was named after the valley ...

GRAY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Millions of years ago, ancient creatures known only by the remnants left behind roamed what we now know as the Tri-Cities, and researchers continue to uncover fossilized remains ...

New research shows RNA is preserved for longer than scientists had realized. This is the oldest RNA ever profiled.