Scientists may not yet have the technology to bring back the dead, but one post circulating on social media claims worms frozen for more than a millennium came back to life after a simple thaw.

Scientists have revived a 46,000-year-old parasite, previously thought to be extinct, that has been “living” in the Siberian permafrost. Detailed in a study published in PLOS Genetics, scientists ...

Although 2020 may have brought the hermit lifestyle to its zenith, a team of scientists from Durham University in England and Yunnan University in China now says the way of living first appeared in ...

One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

New Delhi: Scientists from Jodhpur have found trace fossils—which are not body-part fossils but ‘traces’ of living beings left behind years after their death—that suggest prehistoric marine worms ...

Beneath the arid landscape of Tunisia, a new species was hidden in the stone for millions of years. Mohamed Fsili via Unsplash Just south of the Mediterranean Sea in the arid landscape of Tunisia, ...

Just over a century ago, fossils of a prehistoric predator were found at a quarry in the United Kingdom. Howard et al. 2024. Papers in Palaeontology It was the 1920s, and workers tore into the stone ...

Study of ancient faeces found at a settlement thought to have housed builders of the famous stone monument suggests that parasites got consumed via badly-cooked cow offal during epic winter feasts. A ...

Nearly two miles away from Stonehenge, there is a large Neolithic settlement known as Durrington Walls, believed to be where the people who built the famous site camped during the main stage of ...

It was the 1920s, and workers tore into the stone of quarries in channels along the border between England and Wales. Inside the rocks, the bodies of creatures past were discovered as fossils, and the ...