Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

Oregon has made heat pumps the default appliance for cooling new homes. Last month, the state Building Code Division’s ...

It's unusual, but not impossible, to find gemstones in your yard. If you're ready to start gem hunting right outside of your front door, here's what to know.

A prehistoric skeleton has been found in an intricate underwater cave system along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, an area that ...

A newly discovered Spinosaurus species has revealed that the iconic Jurassic Park predator might not have been fully aquatic but more like a “hell heron” that waded through shallower waters. The ...

Three courts will soon consider legal battles over EPA’s duty to reduce planet-warming emissions, executive orders designed to boost fossil fuels and an ...

In a recent study, University of Alaska Fairbanks paleontologist Matthew Wooller and his colleagues radiocarbon-dated what they thought were pieces of two mammoth vertebrae, only to get a whale of a ...

The dead fin whale that was discovered on an Oregon beach Feb. 7 was a subadult that recently moved on from its mother but was not yet fully grown, officials said Feb. 11. Portland State University ...

In an appeal, lawyers for 18 California youths argued that regulators discount children's future health when weighing environmental policies.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A piece of sewn animal hide found in an Eastern Oregon cave may be one of the oldest known pieces of sewn clothing, dating back to the late Ice Age, archaeologists say. In a ...