A 370 million-year-old fossil found in Scotland is an entirely new form of life which towered 26ft tall, scientists have ...

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...

A new study reveals Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size, not 30, as previously thought. Researchers analyzed ...

The State of Illinois allocated around $2 million in grant funding to the Quad Cities region for various projects. One of the ...

Scientists discovered fossilized reptile skin in an Oklahoma cave, revealing the oldest known example dating back nearly 300 million years.

The Quarry Exhibit Hall, also known as the “Wall of Bones,” is the most popular area to visit in Dinosaur National Monument, ...

The man was entered into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), known only as Grays Harbor County John Doe (2006).

Skeletal remains found on a beach in Washington State nearly 20 years ago have been identified as belonging to Clarence Edwin ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago unearthed in a Moroccan cave are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa, ...

"The chances of finding one fossilized are practically zero," said one of the scientists who is researching the specimen Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer ...

In 2009, Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team were combing the desert landscape of Burtele, a paleontological site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia, when Stephanie Melillo found something remarkable: an ...

Around 410 million years ago, terrestrial life was relatively simple. There were no forests or prairies—land was largely dominated by slimy microbial mats. The types of plants that would eventually ...