These natural formations in northern Pahang don't just stun with their natural beauty - they also hold countless secrets and legends.

New findings reveal the geological age, context, and anatomy of hominin fossils discovered at the Ledi-Geraru Research Project in Ethiopia. Although scientists have uncovered much of the story of ...

Fossils from New Mexico change how we look at dinosaur history.

A recent study suggests the unique geology of an area in Wyoming makes it a trove of unusually preserved fossils ...

Dinosaurs weren’t dying out before the asteroid hit—they were thriving in vibrant, diverse habitats across North America.

Plastic pollution has become one of the most urgent global environmental challenges, with synthetic polymer production continuing to increase at an ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

A fossil site in New Mexico with numerous dinosaurs, including the gargantuan Alamosaurus, dates to shortly before the ...

PETRIFIED FOREST — Adam Marsh and Michelle Stocker had been out all day in the hot weather, breaking rocks and sifting through the pieces, when they made a major discovery last May. “What we saw under ...

In a breakthrough that redefines half a century of paleobotanical knowledge, a team of Brazilian and German scientists has managed to extract and analyze rare plant spores preserved within the tissues ...

At first, it seems like a case of extinction by climate change: More than 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic period, a fanciful menagerie crept, swam, and flew through the cool, damp forests ...

Geology professor Dave Sunderlin will be the first to tell you why plant fossils are much more interesting than dinosaur bones. “They don’t walk,” he said. Because plants don’t — and can’t — migrate ...