Ancient fossils are revealing unexpected chemical survivors, challenging long-held assumptions about how biological carbon is ...

There have been a number of landslides along the Dorset coast in recent months due to wet weather.

The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean, according to half-a-billion-year-old fossils from China that shed light on our evolutionary origins.

“The ancient DNA came to our rescue to secure the specimens’ true identity,” wrote Wooller and his colleagues. It also opened ...

Over this time, wolves have had to endure numerous changes in the planet’s climate. The cycles of the Ice Ages repeatedly changed their habitat and available prey, providing an insight into how modern ...

A 125-million-year-old fossil reveals a newly discovered dinosaur covered in unusual spikes scientists have never seen before.

Step into a world of life-size dinosaurs at Dinosaur World in Plant City, Florida—featuring walking trails, fossil digs, mini ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest Wyoming with his ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

“Our findings challenge the prevailing view that tigers once took refuge in Japan and that cave lion distribution was limited ...

A British dinosaur convention is banning paleontologists named in the Jeffrey Epstein files from attending DinoCon – as the ...