Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

If someone showed you photos of Onyx Cave without context, you’d probably assume they were concept art from the latest space ...

The Old Sugar Mill sits in a historic building surrounded by natural Florida beauty. Each table features a built-in griddle right in the center. Your server brings a pitcher of batter and you become ...

Overview: A Landmark Year for Biodiversity The 12-month period from February 2025 to February 2026 was one of the most consequential in IUCN’s history. Against a backdrop of rapidly accelerating ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a metre-long bony fish with jaws ...

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

“Living fossil” is often misused, but chitons really haven’t changed much in about 300 million years.

Recently-revealed notebooks belonging to a late paleontologist contain the missing information needed to help researchers finish their study of a remarkable fossil discovered nearly three decades ago.

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the ...

That means if aliens were to exist, and they were located some 66 million light-years from Earth, they’d theoretically still ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction.