If you are sneezing this spring, you are not alone. Every year, plants release billions of pollen grains into the air, specks ...

Palynologists who study tiny pollen fossils share 4 stories found in grains that fell hundreds to millions of years ago.

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

The existence of any prehistoric apex predators in the islands of the Caribbean used to be doubted. While their absence would have probably made it even more of a paradise for prey animals, fossils ...

In new research published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, we identify Australia’s earliest known species of ...

These fossils date to the mid-Pliocene epoch, a time when the High Arctic was significantly warmer than today but still experienced freezing winters and limited daylight during winter months. The ...

To Elliot’s astonishment, when he and his father opened up the rocks, they discovered that these seemingly ordinary stones contained ancient fossils of spiral-shaped mollusks. The Jurassic-era ...

Irish-based subsidiaries of investment companies held more than €31 billion in fossil fuel investments as of June 2024, according to a new report from ActionAid Ireland and Trócaire. Ireland's ...

Sebecid fossils are changing everything we thought we knew about the ancient Caribbean. Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound – tall, fast, and fully land-dwelling. These agile predators, some ...

Sebecids were the last surviving members of Notosuchia, a large and diverse group of extinct crocodilians with a fossil record that extends back into the age of dinosaurs. They represented a wide ...

Mysterious fossil teeth found in the Caribbean belong to a family of extinct, land-dwelling reptiles that look like what you might get if you crossed a crocodile with a greyhound dog. This is the ...