Cartoons often suggest turtles wear shells like removable armor. Those stories show turtles stepping out, swapping shells, or ...
A new way of analysing fossils has revealed more about animals and environments of ancient times, when humans were evolving.
Scientists analyzing 443-million-year-old Scottish fossils have uncovered the early evidence that some of the first groups of vertebrates possessed surprisingly advanced eyes and traces of bone, ...
AI is helping scientists make sense of messy dinosaur footprints, offering new clues about how dinosaurs moved, evolved, and ...
Along a roadside in Anhui province, eastern China, cannonball-sized fossils recently caught the attention of paleontologists ...
Turtles today are often slow-moving, modestly sized creatures, but their ancient relatives were quite different. Long before ...
More than 3.5 billion years ago, the Earth was not the hospitable world we know today. The atmosphere lacked oxygen, the seas ...
Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have ...
Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an ...
Protests against Shell’s sponsorship of educational materials about climate change in an Australian museum have led to a review of the materials - but campaigners are still push ...
Last fall, a routine day of rockhounding on Bureau of Land Management–managed public land in southwest Wyoming turned into an extraordinary discovery. While exploring public lands overseen by the BLM ...
That’s according to a new report from Carbon Majors, a database of historical production data from 178 of the world’s largest ...