Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

Fifty-six million years ago, during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), global temperatures rose by more than 5°C ...

Learn more about the lineages of Australian and South American tree frogs, which separated approximately 55 million years ago ...

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 ...

Two fossils of singing cicadas, one of which was remarkably well preserved, reveals that the insects dispersed in Europe ...

Among the rocks and marine fossils, scientists have found fossilized pollen from the Late Cretaceous and Early Paleocene periods that reflects changes in the surrounding ecosystems. The pollen reveals ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

It was approximately 66 million years ago that an asteroid hit Earth. The asteroid landed close to the present-day Yucatán ...

Sometime during the early to late Eocene, there was a massive predator unlike anything on Earth today. If you were roaming ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens – they are nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments ...