The unique underwater kelp forests that line the Pacific Coast support a varied ecosystem that was thought to have evolved along with the kelp over the past 14 million years. But a new study shows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new ...

Fossils offer a glimpse into Earth's distant past. They provide insights into extinct animals and plants, as well as past ecosystems. However, the fossil record is incomplete: Fossilization is rare, ...

The Cenozoic Era has witnessed profound shifts in climate, topography and plant communities over the past 66 million years, driven by tectonic reorganisations, orbital cycles and atmospheric ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is one of the oldest known representatives of the modern-day true cicadas in ...

The fossil vertebrate collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History (UCM) was initially built by vertebrate paleontologists in the University of Colorado (CU) Department of ...