Available to stream starting Wednesday, July 29, 2026 with KPBS+. Just before the Age of Dinosaurs, life was thriving on the ...

LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA, a new six-part series, on July 29 on the PBS App, PBS.org, the Eons YouTube channel, and PBS stations. Hosted by science communicators and paleontology experts Michelle ...

In a town famous for vampires, some mysterious ‘garlic stones’ will be a highlight of Whitby Fossil Day, a Yorkshire Day event at Whitby Museum celebrating the range of fossils found on the North ...

An unexpected giant in a barren world The remarkable scale of Praearcturus gigas surprises scientists because of the era in which it lived. When this scorpion was alive, land animals were a brand new ...

A 16-centimetre pincer fossil recovered in the United Kingdom has settled a question that sat unresolved for more than a hundred years: it belongs to Praearcturus gigas, now confirmed as the largest ...

“Before the Permian period, there are only two definite records of amber — both from the Carboniferous period — with one from the Late Carboniferous of the United States (320 million years ago), which ...

Eons: Life and Death on Pangea,” an upcoming six-episode series from PBS Digital Studios and Complexly, will explore the ...

Microscopic fragments buried for hundreds of millions of years are forcing scientists to rethink when plants developed one of their most powerful survival tools. The study, published July 15 in ...

Analysis of fossils discovered in Illinois reveals a previously unknown growth pattern and opens a new scientific debate.

Paleontologists in China have discovered the oldest chemically verified amber ever found, dating to 385 million years ago.

Every spring, millions of people around the world head outdoors to admire wildflowers. But flowering is much more than a ...

Deeply etched into a cliff face in GunaiKurnai Country, near the township of Buchan in East Gippsland in rural Victoria, is a ...