Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today’s animals — including humans — may struggle, or fail, to survive. Yet ...

An exquisitely preserved fossil forest from Japan provides missing links and helps reconstruct a whole Eurasia plant from the late Miocene epoch. Complete plant fossils are seldom found as a single ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how gigantic animals during the Miocene were replaced by ...

The vegetation in northern high latitudes was likely dense forest before cooling temperatures transformed it into grassland during the Late Miocene —a shift that further accelerated global cooling.

Anacondas are some of the largest snakes in the world, reaching impressive sizes which have earned them a fearsome reputation ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

In 2017, farmer Nigel McGraths stumbled on something remarkable: He was removing rocks from a field to make ready for tilling when he came across what appeared to be a leaf embedded in a rock. The ...

Research helps reconstruct an ancient climate and challenges the timing of the Andes Mountains uplift. As the Earth faces unprecedented climate change, a look into the planet's deep past may provide ...

Of the three stages of the Tertiary period here passed in review, we have seen that the Eocene was characterized by the entire absence of genera and species of mammals identical with those now living; ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Márquez is a marine scientist and science communicator The fossils of a prehistoric sea cow, discovered in northern Venezuela, has ...

The Antarctic ice sheet was even more unstable in the past than previously thought, and at times possibly came close to collapse, new research suggests. The findings raise concerns that, in a warmer ...