What might be the oldest living thing on Earth lives on the side of a highway in Utah, and many people drive right through it without even noticing. It looks like a forest of aspen trees but is ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Across the ages, countless civilisations, species and ecosystems have come and gone. Yet, there are still a few extraordinary remnants of Earth’s deep past that continue to exist today — silent ...

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Argentinian scientists have found fossilized bones of one of the world's oldest dinosaur species in the Andes Mountains, the ...

Scientists have confirmed that a tiny zircon crystal is the oldest piece of the Earth's crust, at 4.4 billion years old. The crystal was discovered on a sheep ranch in Perth, Australia in 2001, but ...

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