The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ...

Explorers keep finding marine life fossils at the top of Mount Everest. As weird as that sounds, there's a perfectly good ...

Conspiracy theories on the internet attribute these fossils to everything from a 'great flood' to a prank of Gandalf monster.

Ocean acidification caused a mass extinction of marine life 66 million years ago, research into tiny shell fossils has shown. This could have implications for the current climate crisis, which is also ...

Near the top of the world’s highest peak, climbers sometimes spot seashells and delicate crinoid stems locked inside pale limestone, a jarring sight in the thin, frozen air. Those fossils formed on an ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be much more stable—and robust—than previously thought. Analyzing nitrogen ...

The unexpected discovery of "ghost" fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth's oceans. Looking through a powerful microscope ...

Imagine standing 8,000 metres above the sea floor at Mount Everest, and you find a marine fossil. You should not be surprised ...

A seven-year-old boy in Matlock, Derbyshire, uncovered ancient ocean fossils right in his own yard, once part of an ocean paradise. However, the fossils actually originated from Dorset. Three months ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Studying foraminiferan fossils can help us understand how the ...

Spinosaurus, the only known semiaquatic dinosaur predator, joins Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus among the largest meat-eating dinosaurs.