Discover how apex predators like great whites started as slow, bottom-dwelling fish in ancient oceans, and how climate change ...

Scientists directly dated dinosaur eggshells in China, finding them 85.91 million years old, revolutionizing fossil timelines ...

Sometime before 520 million years ago, animal life began to flourish as never before. The small shells, worms and even sponge-like enigmas of earlier eras suddenly unfolded into a new array of species ...

Dating dinosaur eggs has always been tricky because traditional methods rely on surrounding rocks or minerals that may have ...

Tropical cyclones have been dangerous and deadly even in the time of giants but paleontologists turned to some of the ...

"The turtle shell, which is roughly 4 feet long and 3 feet across, represents a new genus and species of leatherback sea ...

Hundreds of stone tools discovered in Kenya have revealed that human relatives traveled long distances to find raw material.

A child’s jawbone discovered at Gona in Ethiopia has been re-dated to 2 million years ago, making it one of the oldest Homo erectus fossils ever found. Advanced stone tools at the site suggest early ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change?

The Toba catastrophe hypothesis was one prominent school of thought for many years. It proposes that the Toba supereruption caused a global cooling event that lasted up to six years. Its effects, ...

The end-Cretaceous was the age of the dinosaurs, an era populated by iconic prehistoric creatures like Ankylosaurus, ...