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

Half a billion years ago, the first true eye emerged in Earth’s oceans. Fossils now reveal what that ancient crystal vision could actually see.

However, Florida’s state saltwater mammal, seems to be a bit of an enigma. The same statute that says the manatee as the ...

Sea fossils found on some of the world's tallest mountains are reigniting fierce debate over whether the biblical story of ...

The Spinosaurus is a sail-backed, crocodile-snouted dinosaur that Hollywood depicted as a giant terrestrial predator capable ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than ...

Tom Wright-Piersanti, Steven Moity and the staff of the Morning newsletter compiled this week’s quiz. Science: From hippo ...

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

Less than 24 hours after a mysterious triple homicide baffled investigators and devastated two idyllic Utah towns, a bevy of license plate readers, a trail of footprints and a victim’s own key fob ...

A sediment-washing “bubbler” helped researchers recover 65.5-million-year-old teeth that illuminate how early primate relatives spread after the mass extinction.

Despite a healthy alligator population thriving in the Everglades, a guaranteed sighting doesn’t actually exist. However, ...