A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

Newly discovered feathers were crucial to how Archaeopteryx was able to fly. Archaeopteryx is the fossil that helped confirm ...

Dig down about a mile or two in parts of the United States and you’ll start to see the remains of an ancient ocean. The ...

I LOVE unexpected finds! I went out searching for 40 million year old fossil sea urchins and sand dollars, and I ended up ...

The 24 awards would have gone to a range of companies trying in novel ways to reduce the pollution that is heating the planet ...

In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

Paleontologists discovered the oldest ant species on the planet, 113 million years old and with scythe-shaped jaws.

When scientists crawled into Mammoth Cave —a.k.a. the largest known cave system on the planet— they weren’t expecting company ...

For decades, California has been able to adopt its own emissions regulations, effectively setting the bar for carmakers ...

The movie 'Jurassic Park', which was released in 1994, was instrumental in bringing dinosaurs back into the limelight. Since then, these prehistoric creatures have made their way i ...

The basic tour through Carlsbad Cavern is the Big Room Route, a 1.25-mile, self-guided underground stroll around the ...

Acid rain is precipitation that contains harmful acids formed from air pollution, and it can damage ecosystems, structures, ...