Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University of Texas at Austin, was walking through the Dadès Valley in the Central High Atlas Mountains of Morocco when she saw something ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

Finding these fossils was an 'incredibly exciting moment,' according to paleobiologist Xavier Delclòs.

Despite a rocky theatrical release, Adam Driver's sci-fi film has entered a streamer's Top 10 charts, proving its streaming ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...

Long before whales dominated the oceans, Earth’s seas were home to a fish so massive it continues to challenge our ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing that the most revealing relics of ancient organisms are not their shapes ...

Around 6,000 years ago, communities in what is now Armenia hauled giant carved stones weighing several tons into steep mountain pastures. A new scientific study shows that these “dragon stones” were ...

Buried for 147 million years, a massive fossil unearthed in China is rewriting everything scientists thought they knew about dinosaur size. This newly revealed giant may be the biggest of its kind—and ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NEW YORK — If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You ...