A 242-million-year-old fossil from Devon reveals unexpected skull and tooth features in one of the earliest lepidosaurs. A newly discovered fossil from Devon has provided rare insight into the ...

Join Amanda Rea in learning about the Eocene-aged sedimentary layers that sculpt Bryce Canyon National Park’s iconic hoodoos. These vibrant pink and orange rocks, formed in ancient lake environments, ...

Monumental rock art in Arabia reveals how ancient communities survived, thrived, and expressed identity in a once forbidding desert landscape. Recent research has revealed the important role played by ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...

When freshman pre-business administration major Luke Travis picked up a curious rock while exploring the natural areas around ...

What about those previously studied plumes of methane and meteorites potentially stuffed with the fossils of Martian microbes ...

At 11 feet (3.4m) tall and nearly 27 feet (8.2m) long, Cooper’s pointy-backed herbivore – affectionately known as Apex – is ...

Chemical fossils from 635-million-year-old rocks suggest sponges were among Earth’s first animals, reshaping the story of early life.

Scientists discovered molecular fossils that reveal sponges were among Earth’s earliest animals.

It was the winter of 1929. A young assistant superintendent of the Geological Survey of India was deputed to undertake field ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Scientists reclassified a long-misunderstood fossil from Brazil as a new genus, Franscinella riograndensis. Using advanced ...