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 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 ...

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

The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

Makoshika State Park in Glendive might be Montana’s best-kept secret – a sprawling badlands paradise that somehow flies under the radar while its more famous cousins get all the attention. The name ...