Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...
Nearly 12,000 feet beneath the Greenland Sea, in darkness and crushing pressure, the Freya Hydrate Mounds are quietly ...
The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.
In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...
In rural Prentiss County, on a triangle of land cornered between a stretch of U.S. 45 and Twenty Mile Creek, Joanna Byrd ...
This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...