In Canada, scientists uncovered a perfectly preserved prehistoric armored dinosaur nicknamed the “frozen dragon,” locked in ...

Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies holds evidence of prehistoric ocean life, including a new species. Gerry Shea via Unsplash Hundreds of millions of years ago, animals didn’t follow the same ...

More than 500 million years ago, something in the ocean changed. Some creatures evolved to build their own hard-shelled exterior. Others grew to sizes never seen before as the amount of oxygen on the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long ...