This video uncovers the story of a dinosaur so immense that each step sent vibrations through the ground. Scientists believe ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were ...

Winter rain in Europe is changing faster than scientists expected. Northern regions already face wetter winters once ...

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded ...

New findings add to evidence that enlarged brains seen in modern birds and presumably in their prehistoric ancestors were not the driver of pterosaurs’ ability to achieve flight, says @HopkinsMedicine ...

Newly identified bones tie the mysterious Burtele foot to a new Australopithecus species that lived alongside Lucy more than ...

Researchers announced their findings in 2012, but while they knew the bones didn’t belong to the hominin species A. afarensis ...

Although a recently discovered species overlapped with the famous Lucy, and appears less evolved in many ways, it also shows some closer resemblance to our later ancestors.

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

If there was any doubt that the current U.S. administration is the world's greatest threat to action on climate change, President Donald Trump removed it on Sept. 23 when he addressed the U.N. General ...

Newly analyzed Arctic fossils show that marine ecosystems recovered astonishingly fast after the “great dying.” More than 30,000 teeth, bones, and other fossil fragments from a 249-million-year-old ...