Fossil egg found in Antarctica suggests marine reptiles laid eggs, challenging previous beliefs about ancient life.

The energy company’s sponsorship is a reminder of how football feels morally compromised on environmental issues ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few ...

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a ...

While cleaning fossils retrieved from a cave on a Caribbean island, a researcher noticed something strange in the hollow ...

Deep beneath the hillsides and suburbs of Brazil, there are tunnels so vast and regular that they look like abandoned subway ...

A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will ...

Huge tunnels under southern Brazil and northern Argentina were potentially made by giant, Ice Age sloths for refuge and rest ...