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

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

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 ...

Explore the fascinating tale of the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a monumental scientific endeavor by the Soviet Union that aimed ...

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 ...

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

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.