Evacuation orders were issued to 40,000 Orange County residents. A fire official said a major spill or an explosion were the ...

An “unprecedented” situation was taking hold in Orange County on Friday, as a chemical tank was at risk of spewing a highly toxic chemical that can cause severe respiratory distress and ...

At first, David Elze thought lightning or a tree hit the building where he works in Logan Township, New Jersey, as tiles fell from the ceiling Wednesday afternoon. But it wasn't either of those things ...

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

The oldest eukaryotes we've found lived exclusively on the seafloor and already used oxygen. The discovery overturns certain long-held assumptions about the group while corroborating others.

WEATHER IN YOUR AREA TONIGHT. ATTORNEYS FOR THE VICTIMS FAMILIES IN THE ESPARTO FIREWORKS EXPLOSION HAVE TAKEN THE FIRST STEP TO SUE THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE JULY 1ST EXPLOSION. SEVEN WORKERS WERE ...

Summary: The “Cambrian Explosion”, the period roughly 500 million years ago when animal life rapidly diversified, may not have been a sudden burst of innovation. New research suggests this was a ...

For decades, scientists have sought to explain the so-called "Cambrian Explosion," a pivotal period over 500 million years ago when a remarkable diversity of animal life appeared in the fossil record.

Dozens more were injured in the explosion, which appeared to be one of the country’s deadliest in recent years. By Chris Buckley An explosion on Monday in a fireworks factory in southern China killed ...

For decades, scientists have wondered what triggered the sudden "explosion" of complex animal life on Earth. This new hypothesis suggests that the answer isn't found in shells or legs, but in the ...

Remarkably preserved relics from southern China — more than half representing species new to science — are transforming our understanding of organisms that survived the first mass extinction of the ...

Told a certain way, the life of Kimberly Noel Kardashian maps neatly onto the entire history of media in the new millennium. In her teen-age years, Kim’s family was part of the biggest televised ...