TWO hundred years ago, young boys were paid eight pennies a day to drill 48 holes into stone blocks in Brusselton quarry near Shildon.

Fossil footprints found in Victoria by amateur palaeontologists have pushed back our understanding of when an early relative ...

Seventeen footprints preserved in a slab of sandstone discovered in southeastern Australia dating to about 355 million years ...

This reptile probably was a predator because plant-eating did not appear until ... that left the Australian footprints lived during the Carboniferous Period, a time when global temperatures ...

A report in the journal Nature estimates that the amniote tracks date to between 350 million and 359 million years ago.

Their task was to identify all the epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — in the forest canopy. As Jan Wolf, a botanist now at the University of Amsterdam, measured tree trunk girth ...

Stop! Don't touch that plant! There are lots of gorgeous varieties of plants nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains for nature lovers to admire and enjoy. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is ...

Botanists Lúcia Lohmann and Charlotte Taylor join Host Flora Lichtman to discuss their work discovering new plant species and maintaining the storied Missouri Botanical Garden. And, what does it mean ...

But pollen isn’t all bad. It’s essential to the reproduction of plants, the survival of insects and the entire food web. We humans could not survive without it, so we absolutely shouldn’t ...