Scientists refine the timeline of sponge origins, showing soft-bodied ancestors likely evolved later than some chemical ...

Over millions of years, the Earth has evolved rapidly, which led to the draining of many oceans and left behind deserted ...

Devil’s Den State Park in West Fork, Arkansas delivers that sensation with such regularity that you might want to check if ...

These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...

By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...

We cracked open rocks that are over 425 million years old and found incredibly well-preserved fossils inside. Some of these ...

Recently, a video showing peoplecollecting marine fossils from the summit of a mountain went viral, leaving many puzzled.

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

It is popularly believed that around 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs ...

Sponges are among earth’s most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

Since Donald Trump regained the U.S. presidency, he has talked about taking over Greenland. He has insisted that the U.S. will control the island, currently an autonomous territory of Denmark, and ...