A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels — the main driver of global warming — from its ...

The once unlikely alliance took root in Texas and now reaches right into the White House, where President Trump wants to ban ...

A rare 520-million-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact has been found. The fossilized sample — a tiny larva ...

Sir Robert is one of the world's most respected scientific voices. He's a former chief scientist for the UK's department of ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a half-billion-year-old fossil with its internal organs still intact.

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor. The iconic "Lucy" fossil would reveal much about our species' ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

South Africa is well known for its fossil heritage, a record of plants and animals that tells us what the world was like long ...

Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework. This was ...