For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the ...

Long ago, people identified fossils in their environment and explained them within their own cultural framework .

California has no shortage of geological marvels, many tucked within one of the state’s national parks. But to view a fossilized, dry waterfall formed hundreds of thousands of years ago from an ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

Wood and animal fossils estimated to be 230 million years old were discovered in Bopparam village, Kotapalli mandal, during a ...

They’ve since unearthed nine or 10 bones, Boyd said, including vertebrae, part of the tail, a tooth and an ankle. Boyd said ...

With the help of newly identified bones, an enigmatic 3.4-million-year-old hominin foot found in 2009, is assigned to a ...

The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research ...

A 66-million-year-old dinosaur fossil with extraordinarily preserved skin and soft tissue has arrived at Winona State ...

In the spring of 2019, free climbers scaling the risky cliffs of Monte Cònero on Italy’s Adriatic coast noticed something ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess.