Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored steep slabs of limestone — remnants of an ancient seabed. They found thousands ...

Footprints, however, do not need skeletons to tell their tale. The shapes held clues. Many marks were arched, as if a flipper brushed the bottom while the body hovered above. That differs from the ...

Rocks have been found to hold many traces of Earth's ancient history, but usually geologists have to seek them out. Every once in a while, however, these imprints of times past are found by ...

Returning to where footprints were trodden into the sand 49 days ago, an Australian photographer made a breathtaking discovery. On July 28, Darwin woman Jill Huck photographed a trail left by a ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- Thursday marks the beginning of sea turtle nesting season in Escambia County. Once the sun rose, volunteers with the Escambia County Sea Turtle Conservation Program went out ...

While patrolling Surfside Beach early Monday morning, Officer Jimmy McDaniel witnessed something extraordinary: a Kemp's ridley sea turtle—the rarest sea turtle species in the world—resting in the ...

In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast noticed something that stopped them cold. High on pale slabs of limestone that tilt toward the ...