Looking for something to do during the long summer days? The Great Irish Fossil Hunt challenges you to find and record the ...

To say that oil is made from dinosaurs is like saying that bread is made from insects, just because the odd one occasionally ...

Footprints from Australia show reptiles may have evolved 35 million years earlier than thought, changing the timeline of ...

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing ...

Two 325-million-year-old ctenacanth shark fossils discovered in Mammoth Cave shed light on ancient marine ecosystems.

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Bountiful remains of foraminifera reveal how organisms responded to climate disturbances of the past. They can help predict the future, too.

Ice Age sea levels exposed vast plains supporting rich ecosystems and hunters.Knysna Cave reveals continuous human use, tool ...