Thousands of years ago, an owl’s messy leftovers became prime real estate for some very determined bees. Deep inside a cave ...

With a wetsuit and goggles, paleontologist John Moretti searches for fossils in the stream that flows through Bender's Cave ...

Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This rare herbivorous “living fossil” helps scientists better understand early ...

The assemblage suggests that the ancestors of some of today's animal groups may have arisen before the famed Cambrian ...

The groundwater flowing through the subterranean cave systems of central Texas are vital for both farming and daily life. They’re also underground, ancient archives of the past. In Comal County just ...

Metabolism quietly governs every living body. It shapes how organisms grow, reproduce, heal, and age. Because metabolism links closely to body size, temperature, and diet, it also sets limits on how ...

Fossils in China show that complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion, changing our understanding of how life ...

A remarkable find in an active underground stream has recently been made deep beneath the rolling hills of the Edwards ...

Hundreds of Chinese fossils from the dawn of animal evolution may change how scientists think of this critical period of ...

A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...