Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies," are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...

Have you ever wanted to dig up ancient fossils that could end up in a museum? With the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site, now you can.

From the mist-shrouded cliffs of the Pacific Coast to the wind-whipped peaks of Pikes Peak, America’s highways double as open ...

At the northern edge of Chile’s Atacama Desert sits a pile of rocks that’s so big that you can see it from space—and it’s ...

An explosion on Thursday night ignited massive flames at the El Segundo refinery. The fire could be seen for miles.

Here’s the list of the oldest caves on Earth · Sudwala Caves · Jenolan Caves · Grotte de la Devèze · Fumane Cave · Movile ...

A University of Sydney student has developed a completely new way to peer inside coral fossils to recover lost records of past climate change.

Last Friday, the Spatial Ecology and Paleontology Lab (SEPL) hosted its weekly Fossil Friday event. This hands-on outreach ...

A skull found in Petralona Cave in Greece is at least 286,000 years old, revealing the existence of an ancient human species still unknown.

There, researchers study and catalogue skins, bones, plant matter, fossils and rocks that make up the flora, fauna and geology of the country – and the Northwest Territories – collected ...

A reconstruction of an ancient skull suggests that humans could have evolved half a million years earlier than thought. Not ...

Between 443.7 and 416 million years ago, three orthocone cephalopods died in Door County in the same spot, at roughly the ...