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

WINONA, Minn. (KTTC) – A team of Winona State University faculty and alumni discovered a massive 66-million-year-old fossil ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...

Deep in ancient rock, researchers have uncovered a creature so well preserved that its brain and internal organs are still ...

Scientists debate mosquito origins as fossil evidence and genomic studies clash, revealing new insights into their ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In 2003, archaeologists excavating inside Liang Bua, a cave ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

While other species downsized and died out across millennia the anaconda remains an Amazon giant. The Green Anaconda is the ...

Ever since the first fossil was pulled from the sandstone formation at Hell Creek, Montana, at the turn of the last century, the Tyrannosaurus Rex has reigned supreme as the ultimate apex predator. In ...

The next big Cascadia earthquake will be devastating for the Pacific Northwest—especially the coast. In addition to the shaking of the earthquake, the land will instantly drop in elevation. Then there ...

They observed that the structure of tiny magnetic fields generated by the rotating electrons indicates that the organisms ...