Analysis - For over a century, the scientific literature has credited western missionaries with "discovering" fossils in Lesotho, the small, mountainous country surrounded by South Africa.

Reservoirs of hydrogen gas that form naturally in Earth's crust could help humans decarbonize. The challenge now is finding ...

The latest in a series of climate lawsuits, ten Utah youth are suing the state over its issuance of fossil fuels permitting, which they say violates their rights to life, safety, and health.

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery by unearthing giant magnetofossils in ancient ocean sediments, revealing ...

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

Thomas Condon was born on March 3, 1822, in County Cork, Ireland. He immigrated to New York with his parents when he was 11 ...

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

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Radioactive minerals in eggshells can help scientists pinpoint a fossil’s age with stunning accuracy. Scientists excavate dinosaur egg nests in Mongolia's Eastern Gobi Basin. National Geographic ...

An international team of geologists and palaeontologists is pioneering a groundbreaking methodology to reliably determine the age of fossil-bearing rocks by directly dating fossilised dinosaur ...