The trouble was the area these fossils were found in would have been inland in the Late Cretaceous period. Other bones from a dinosaur named Segnosaurus were discovered in subsequent years in the Gobi ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute recounts the 50-year anniversary of the hominid's discovery, which upended the study of human evolution.

The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will ...

Fossil teeth challenge the idea that large brains drove extended childhood, suggesting cultural transmission shaped human evolution.

A search for dinosaur fossils unintentionally shifted into a discovery of the oldest tadpole ever discovered when a team ...

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

Musk's dream of transporting humans to Mars could also become a bigger national priority under Trump, Reuters reported ...

The discovery in the Valtellina Orobie mountain range in Lombardy dates back 280 million years to the Permian period, the age ...

A new glass façade now seamlessly connects the museum to the Exposition Park, allowing those outside a peek at Gnatalie, a.k.a. “the Green Dinosaur” (more on her below), and grants those inside views ...