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

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

They go three miles back into the cave, far enough that daylight feels like another planet, and that distance alone makes ...

Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

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

Legend once had it that the huge, three-toed footprints scattered across the central highlands of Bolivia came from ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Researchers say early signs point to preserved skin and soft tissue found in only a handful of dinosaur fossils worldwide.