May 28, 2025 — A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, represents the first ever species from the arid Karoo, which indicates that the area was likely historically more forested ...

If verified, these fossils would surpass 3.7-billion-year-old microbial mats found in Greenland as the oldest known traces of life. The microfossils also lend support to the idea that the warm ...

June 3, 2025 — Collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be triggered with very little ocean warming above present-day, leading to a devastating four meters of global sea level rise to play ...

What’s more, the Moroccan site is in northwest Africa, far from the sites in East and South Africa that have yielded many of Africa’s other hominin fossils. To paleoanthropologists ...