About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Could it be that one of only three known markers directly targeting the DNA does not exist outside the realm of microbes? Now ...

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha - a 'living fossil'.

Living Through "The Great Dying" About 250 million years ago ... although some species appeared clever enough to find ways to beat the heat. The researchers found an abundance of plant fossils dating ...

Lior Shamir, a computational astrophysicist from Kansas State University, says that may mean our universe inherited the spin of the black hole we're currently living in, though he thinks it's more ...

Scientists recently uncovered Asia's oldest known fossil of an ornithischian dinosaur with an impressive 193 million years old age belonging to a plant-eater species named Archaeocursor asiaticus.

A few species of these "living fossils" still survive today ... There is also evidence that the first primitive plants began to appear on the previously barren land. These first steps toward ...

It’s very rare for living things to become fossilised ... leaving a rock replica of the original bone called a fossil. Image caption, It’s not just animal and plant remains that can be ...

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 ...

By using its body characteristics and comparing it to living thrips ... their preferred plant diets and habitats due to the dramatic environmental and climatic changes. The fossil find also ...