Hollywood has used artistic license to take some liberties with dinosaurs, but new research may expose what these prehistoric ...

Key topicsThe trace is the world’s earliest known “butt-drag” fossil, preserved in South Africa.Researchers link the mark to ...

Unique soil makes this New Jersey quarry a prehistoric fossil hotspot.

Public Citizen and the Revolving Door Project found 42 former fossil fuel industry employees among nominees and appointees to ...

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

On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies", are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no discernible tails. They spend much of their time sunning themselves on rocky ...

American technologists have been telling educators to rapidly adopt their new inventions for over a century. In 1922, Thomas ...

A new dinosaur species from Patagonia, Joaquinraptor casali, steps out of the shadows with a telltale clue clenched in its ...

A new, three-year Mass Save budget was aimed at delivering more services to low-income residents. It hasn't worked out that ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use - people cleaning their ...