Diverse life forms exist on and within the ocean floor. These primarily consist of microbes, tiny organisms that can cope ...

Long before horses thundered across the plains, a plant-eating giant with hooves of its own left footprints in the mud. Newly ...

Newly discovered footprints at Lake Turkana offer a rare glimpse into two ancient species coexisting and walking side by side ...

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

The Out of Africa Theory explains how every modern human descends from a single African population that began migrating roughly 60,000 years ago. This model is supported by fossil evidence and genetic ...

Ancient sea creatures may have used magnetic particles to navigate. 3D scans reveal how these magnetofossils sensed Earth’s ...

It’s not every day that a gravel quarry turns into a paleontological goldmine, but that’s exactly what happened here. A recent study has revealed the discovery of a vast and surprisingly ...

Why it matters: The leak from Southern California Gas Co.’s Aliso Canyon storage facility lasted nearly four months, was ...

A singular geological process—a clay mask of extreme fineness—has allowed the appearance in life of a 66-million-year-old ...

Stunning Edmontosaurus mummies from Wyoming reveal dinosaur hooves and skin in detail. First look at duck-billed giant's true ...

The preserved record of “dinosaur mummies” soft tissue discovered in Wyoming is shedding new light on what these creatures ...

For the first time, scientists have uncovered a clear and complete picture of what a large dinosaur looked like in real ...