A strange "fossil worm" has been discovered in Siberia. It showed no signs of life until researchers thawed it out. Then, it ...

Dinosaurs roamed the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago and were among the most feared creatures on the planet. But the discovery of a remarkable fossil in China suggests smaller mammals may have ...

You probably don’t think twice when you queue up at the grocery store or join a conga line at a wedding. But this type of single-file organization is a sophisticated form of collective social behavior ...

Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the middle of courtship behavior when they got entrapped by tree resin and preserved in fossilized amber. This, so far, oldest and ...

Fossils are a great way to peer into history, as they are in some way a 'time capsule,' carrying reflections of a time that has passed. Astronomers have found something similar in space in the form of ...

In a new book, geologist Paul Bierman recounts the moment he found astonishing evidence that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted in the ancient past. By Emily Anthes Somewhere deep inside a glacier in ...

This pair of E. affinis termites was trapped in tree resin almost 40 million years ago and preserved until today in a Baltic amber fossil. Approximately 38 million years ago two termites were in the ...