Participants from across Australia and the world travelled to outback Queensland to clean up the near-complete ichthyosaur ...
Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...
A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...
Ancient lungfish fossils show how early fish evolved features that eventually allowed animals to leave the water and adapt to life on land.
Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern ...
With new technology, smarter tools, and a lot of patient digging, historians and archaeologists are uncovering marvels from every corner of the world. One day it’s an enormous thigh bone from a ...
These facts got me digging a bit deeper into the role of crude oil in our lives. For one thing, while a lot of oil is going into the production of synthetics, such is the size and scale of the oil ...
Fossil crustaceans preserved in Japanese sediments reveal how ancient ocean currents linked Asia and North America during the ...
Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...
Once overlooked, Morocco has emerged as a focal point of human prehistory, with new discoveries and a landmark report ...
The largest study ever conducted on the growth of Tyrannosaurus rex reveals that the dinosaur took a far longer and slower route to adulthood than scientists had previously believed.