Humans have been around for a blink of Earth’s history. In that time we’ve come through ice ages, plagues, and every kind of disaster the planet could throw at us, which sounds impressive until you ...

A fossil coral can preserve more than the shape of an animal that lived in an ancient sea. Fine lines on its skeleton can also record repeated cycles of growth. Count those lines within a yearly band, ...

Harvestmen (Zatoumushi) are arthropods classified under the class Arachnida, order Opiliones, and family Phalangiidae. While ...

(CNN) — Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, Prototaxites, an enigmatic organism, towered over the landscape like a prehistoric monolith. Now, new research ...