On this week's episode: is our universe inside a black hole, Antarctic explorers, tracking teenaged turtles, and ...

A priest from Colombia found fossils hidden beneath a rock with markings that indicated it to be plant fossils. The natural world had intricate details that went unnoticed unless it was examined ...

Paleontologists at Mammoth Cave National Park have unearthed an ancient shark species previously unknown to science.

The oldest fossils are remains of marine organisms that populated the planet's oceans. When they died, the plants and animals were buried by mud, sand, or silt on the sea floor. Land animals and ...

Visitors at the Miraculous Life in the Ancient Oceans: Exhibition of Premium Fossils from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota, held at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing. WANG QIAN/CHINA ...

The earliest known fossil of a terrestrial plant that shows almost its entire structure has gone on display for the first time in the world at an exhibition in Tokyo. Although it was discovered ...

He combines geochemistry with the fossil record to try to understand the Earth’s climate ... Much of what we know about ancient atmospheres comes from chemical studies of ancient sea life and ...

Reaching up to 300m, Tasmania's sea cliffs are some of the highest in ... Within this cave system fossils up to 300 million years old can be found that hold clues about the formation of Tasmania.

Industrial activities including the burning of fossil fuels ... Seagrasses, which are plants adapted to live in the sea, are different from kelp and other algae in that they have roots, veins ...

During large periods of Earth's geological history, huge swaths of the United Kingdom were immersed beneath a prehistoric sea ... include shark teeth, fossil wood, and plant fossils—including ...