Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Rebecca Totten, associate professor at the University of Alabama looks into the mud at the bottom of the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Totten, a micro-paleontologist studies microscopic fossils of sea ...

Some fossils preserve far more than bones, capturing the exact moments prehistoric animals suffered catastrophic and often horrifying deaths millions of years ago. Giant sauropod footprints became ...

Monthly open houses at the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History offer glimpses of work behind evolutionary discoveries As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats ...

Careful digging eventually revealed a complete Ice Age mammoth tusk that measures at 7 feet, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said in an Aug. 9 press release. Mississippi Department of ...

What if the first solid clue that birds existed was not a bone, but a three-toed footprint stamped into ancient mud? A new study suggests that some controversial “bird-like” tracks look closer to ...

Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor.

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Between 18,000 and 11,000 years ago, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere suddenly shot up. This caused rapid global warming, the mass melting of glaciers, and the end of the last ice age.