A 37,000-year-old bamboo fossil recently unearthed in Manipur’s Imphal Valley provides evidence that bamboo survived during the Ice Age in Asia. This remarkable find reveals new details about how ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has crumbled. You would not ...

AMES, Iowa – It was late in the year, but Panama was still muggy and rain clouds were closing in. A field crew of student-paleontologists wasn’t having much luck, but Aaron Wood kept chipping away at ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago. The new fossil, found in Argentina, surpasses the previous ...

The “excellently preserved” fossil from the Cretaceous era, dating back 99 million years, comes from the Kachin region in ...