Bill O’Neal Jr. spent most of his life searching the muddy creeks and riverbanks of eastern North Carolina for pieces of ...

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock. They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral ...

Trove of fossils discovered in Canada sheds light on "when life first became large, complex and unmistakenly animal." ...

Picking the wildest fantasy promoted by President Donald Trump as a basis for public policy is increasingly challenging -- is ...

But more than half a billion years ago this wilderness was an ancient seafloor home to the wrinkled pancakes, fleshy fronds ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

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

The Canadian fossils belong to the White Sea group. But they appear to be around 567 million years old – 5 to 10 million ...

In Washington state, volunteers have helped researchers by digging up mammoth bones and other ancient natural artifacts for years.