It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

An A-frame cabin at Fossil Butte National Monument was the home for a fossil miner as he discovered Wyoming artifacts. It ...

Rare fossil finds show colossal octopuses were among the top ocean predators during the Cretaceous Period, according to a new ...

Researchers say the ancestral Colorado River formed an ancient lake in northern Arizona roughly 6.6 million years ago, which ...

Paleontologists from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) have published a new study in the scientific journal Royal ...

The fossil record has given us another new prehistoric species, named Eosphorosuchus lacrimosa (from the Greek ...

AJ Scaramucci, son of Skybridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci, looks to be a chip off the old block. The younger ...

A vast new ocean stretching hundreds of miles could one day split Africa in two, scientists have warned, after discovering ...

The letters can travel the world for years. One enthusiast is on a quest to find them—and to track down the writers behind ...

Scientists have discovered a hidden partnership between ancient microbes that may explain how complex life first evolved on ...

With their fabulous but flimsy wings, butterflies don't tend to fare well in the fossilization process, leaving much of their evolutionary history in the shadows. So you can imagine the surprise when ...