Today, rock wallabies rarely stray far from the safety of their rocky shelters. But the fossil record tells a very different ...

The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive ...

Longtime fossil collector Barry Norbeck donated thousands of shells and other invertebrate fossils to the Calvert Marine ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

We cracked open rocks that are over 425 million years old and found incredibly well-preserved fossils inside. Some of these ...

Ancient fossils from Moroccan caves, dated with rare precision, offer rare insight into early human evolution.

Fossils from Morocco, dated to 773,000 years ago, reveal an early Homo sapiens lineage, shedding light on Africa’s role in ...

Now, a new Nature study points to an answer by catching four planets at a stage most systems never show us: The awkward, ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

In the aftermath of the giant asteroid that crashed into the Yucatan Peninsula about 66 million years ago, approximately 75% ...

After studying rocks more than 541 million years old, MIT scientists have found new evidence that some of Earth’s first ...