Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

When a villager in northern Greece broke into a limestone wall and exposed a human skull, he did not just find a fossil, he ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in ...

Beds of Bathymodiolus mussels provide important habitat for other deep-sea critters, including sea stars, scaleworms and limpets. NOAA Ocean Exploration. The deep sea is the large ...

New genomic research suggests our species descended from a deep fusion between two ancient lineages — one of them a mysterious “ghost.” ...

The Trump administration’s decision to scrap the “endangerment finding” on Thursday will have wide-reaching consequences for ...

The group of climate crisis deniers — Steve Koonin , John Christy , Ross McKitrick , Judith Curry, and Roy Spencer — took ...

The Trump administration says it supports a strict Biden-era rule that forces cities to replace most lead water pipes within ...

The Trump administration's revocation of a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health is likely to ...

WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump vitiated scientific facts Thursday, helping fossil fuel fat cats by eliminating the ...

Tiny dinosaur fossils unearthed in Alaska reveal that baby dinosaurs were born and raised through harsh Arctic winters, enduring months of darkness and cold. This groundbreaking discovery challenges ...