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.

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 ...

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 ...

Despite an extreme environment characterized by high pressure, high temperature, strong acidity and low oxygen levels resembling living conditions in prehistoric times, hydrothermal vents harbor a ...

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, ...

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 ...

WORMS frozen in permafrost have come back to life after up to 42,000 years, say scientists. Two nematodes from Siberia are moving and eating again for the first time since the Pleistocene age, it is ...

Just south of the Mediterranean Sea in the arid landscape of Tunisia, layers of rock and soil hold evidence of past eras. Millions of years of pressure make the remains of ancient species turn from ...

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 ...