Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

Tiny insects trapped in amber could tell us a great deal about their roles in past ecosystems: pollinators, parasites, predators, and prey. But how many of the insects preserved alongside each other ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Researchers discovered that a 215-million-year-old reptile started life on four legs and switched to two as an adult.

An ancient snake fossil discovered in England reveals a strange new species and clues to the origins of modern snakes.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

The museum underwent hardship in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the high operational costs led the city to consider ...

Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

Utah Republicans are calling for an energy "divorce" from blue states. A major utility just granted part of their wish.

Forgotten fossils from the Kimberley show how marine amphibians rebounded and spread across the globe after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Utah Republicans have called for an energy "divorce" from blue states. It's not just about money, but also identity.