Travel brings many pleasures, but for those of us with an earth science background, it is a special treat to visit different ...

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

A fossilized horseshoe crab shows tiny pits on its shell, hinting at an ancient microbial attack. Discover what it reveals.

Few moments in paleontology are as exciting as the discovery of dinosaur eggs. These fragile and ancient specimens offer a ...

Single-cell bacteria, in shallow marine waters, altered the composition of liquid and air – as the planet heaved around them.

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America ...

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

A newly discovered dinosaur species, was hidden in museum archives for over a century, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

New fossils link a strange 3.4-million-year-old foot to Australopithecus deyiremeda, a species that mixed climbing skills with its own style of bipedal walking. The evidence shows that multiple early ...

The Pachycephalosaurus skull belonged to a dinosaur with a domed-shaped head that lived around 67 million years ago ...

Scientists have discovered a 151-million-year-old fossil fly in Australia that challenges ideas about insect evolution. Named ...

A team of researchers has discovered 16,600 footprints belonging to theropods — the dinosaur group that includes the ...