While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary history. A rare fossil of Prototaxites, a 30-foot-tall fungus that lived ...

SEE ALSO: Hubble sees mini galaxies surrounding Andromeda are pretty wild A fossil of a type of brachiopod, Floweria chemungensis, went extinct in the late Devonian period. Credit: Andrew Bush / ...

Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...

Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.

William Paterson professor Martin Becker is suing the New Jersey university after it allegedly caused his collection of 380-million-year-old fossils to end up in a Nashville landfill.

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...