I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Fusulines thrived in cold seas but vanished twice when warming from volcanoes rapidly spiked ocean carbon levels.

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

65 miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones contains many of the world’s best-preserved, most diverse fossils.

Dinosaurs Scientists uncover new secrets of rare feathered fossil showing early bird evolution Study using UV light and CT scans shows the 150 million-year-old specimen had specialized flight feathers ...

407-million-year-old: Fossil of 1st land-dwelling giant breaks the tree of life Scientists then leaned towards it being a giant fungus, but the classification remained uncertain. Updated: May 13 ...

The fossil record first met Prototaxites in 1843, buried in ancient rocks that hinted at some enormous tree. Due to its vast size — up to 26 feet tall and 3 feet wide — it was first mistaken ...